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From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: RE: want generic resource to override specific application resource
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:14:41 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date:    Tue, 1 Sep 92 11:42:03 PDT
Message-Id: <920901114203.254000cc@TGV.COM>
X-St-Vmsmail-To: ST%"xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu"

#
#  i have the following in my .Xresource (that i load with xrdb):
#
#	*vt100.translations:#override Meta<KeyPress>: string(0x1b) insert()
#
#  however, while this works on the dec, it doesn't work on the hp
#  unless i place a leading "xterm" on the line.  on the hp,
#  /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm has:
#
#	XTerm*VT100.Translations:#override Meta<KeyPress>: insert-seven-bit()
#
#  what do i need to do to get the translations listed initially to work on
#  the hp?  i appreciate your taking a moment to answer.
#

Bill, let me correct my last reply to you.  The above works correctly since
it fullfills the first matching rull on resources.  XTerm*VT100... is more
specific than *vt100.  To override it you will need to change your resource
to xterm*vt100.translations:... so that the second rule will then take effect
which means that instances overrides class resources.

This was pointed out to me by Donnna Converse.  Thanks to her for the 
correction.

Patrick L. Mahan

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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: WANTED: highest graphics performance under 386BSD X11R5, DOS, Windows
Date: 23 Aug 92 23:18:46 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:48:35 GMT
Message-Id: <michaelv.714606515@test.cc.iastate.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd

In <9208167598@genesis.nred.ma.us> abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson) writes:

>The fastest VGA cards fall into three categories:
>34020 TIGA based (very expensive, $500+, awkward drviers)
>S3 based (fast line drawing, $200+)
>WINGINE based (just released by Chips and Technologies, VERY fast)

Don't forget the 8514 based cards, such as the ATI Graphics/Ultra.
Incredibly fast.  Highly recommended.

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From: neptune@icd.teradyne.com (Alan Steele)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X windows over phone lines for PCs
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:58:18 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:14:21 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug31.181421.10693@icd.teradyne.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.open-look

I've seen so many questions about this recently that I'm posting what I know,
hoping to avoid further duplicates...

Two of the many PC-based X server products support the NCD XRemote protocol,
which is what you need to run X windows over a phone line.  (Don't bother
to try SLIP or PPP, it's too slow.)

The two packages are VisionWare's XVision (available from Qualix, UniPress,
VisionWare, others) and the NCD PC-Xdivision's PC-XView (available directly
from NCD PC-Xdivision).

Both packages work reasonably well.  The XVision package doesn't crash as
often, but it doesn't come with the right OpenWindows fonts that we need, and
it's more painful to install and use.  The PC-XView package is easy to install
and use, but crashes a little too frequently, mostly when doing graphics-
intensive stuff like loading bitmaps.

Contact information:

I don't know the contact information for the U.S. office of VisionWare (they
are based in the U.K.), but you can get XVision from Qualix group, among others.
E-mail to info@qualix.com.

You can probably get information about PC-XView from support@gss.com.
Phone is (503) 641-2200.

-ams
From: huber@gacvx2.gac.edu (Tom Huber)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Questions regarding TVTWM
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:14:19 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College

Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:04:52 GMT
Message-Id: <huber.15.715359892@vax2.gac.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I am running TVTWM under X11R4 on a NeXT

I was wondering how to set the root window to grey (rather than the default 
tiled background with TVTWM?  Before loading TVTWM, I can use 
xsetroot -grey  , however once TVTWM loads it overwrites it with the default
background and further calls to xsetroot have no effect.

Also, I want to set the geometry for the virtual desktop window on startup - 
I assume that this can be set in my .Xdefaults file but I don't know the 
correct syntax (using virtualDesktop:geometry ... does not work)

Thanks in advance,
Tom Huber
-------------------
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    Physics Department             BITNET:    huber@gacvax1.bitnet
    Gustavus Adolphus College
    St. Peter, MN 56082 USA        Phone:     (507)933-7036
From: foster@sting.hao.ucar.edu (Ben Foster)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: athena file finder widget?
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:58:22 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO

Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:55:16 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.155516.8741@ncar.ucar.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.misc

Anyone know of an athena widget, or source code, that helps 
search a dir tree and open a selected file(s)?  I need such 
in an OpenWindows 2.0, SunOS 4.1, X11R4 environment using 
athena widgets, and have a feeling I would be reinventing 
the wheel (widget?) to write my own...

--Ben Foster
  foster@ncar.ucar.edu
  303-497-1595
From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 10:17:54 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 13:31:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X Error on busy cursor routine from FAQ
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:31:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:55:55 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug28.085555.7700@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Aug25.224324.7877@asd.com>, scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:

> I read the FAQ.  I wanted a busy cursor and have input blocked, so I
> wrote a function based on what I found in FAQ #122.  [...]  However,
> when I run the code I get the following error:

> X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  1 (X_CreateWindow)
[...]
> (Environment: X11R4pl18, Motif 1.1.5, SunOS 4.1.1, Xsun server and mwm)

> The function (included below), is called from an XmNactivateCallback
> for a Motif pushButton widget.  The callback works as follows:

> 	busyCursor(topLevel, 1);	/* turn on busy cursor */
> 	set SIGCHLD to be caught by a function that will turn busyCursor off;
> 	fork();
> 	if the child process
> 		close all fds > 2;
> 		exec desired program
> 	return;

It is very dangerous to do any X calls from a signal handler; you have
to make *certain* the signal can't interrupt another X call.  (Unless
you are lucky enough to have a signal-safe Xlib, in which case you're
asking for portability problems, because most Xlibs aren't.)

In this case, you're getting a very informative error: a BadWindow
error means that the CreateWindow request was passed a window argument,
but the argument was not a valid window ID.  The CreateWindow request
takes two window arguments, one of which is the new window's ID,
generated by Xlib, which hence does not appear at the Xlib call level.
The other one is the parent window, which in your sample code is given
as XtWindow(topLevel).  I don't really know Xt; from what I've seen fly
by on the net, I'd guess that perhaps you haven't realized topLevel,
except that that doesn't make much sense when this is happening in a
pushbutton callback.

This still leaves it unclear what's going wrong.  About all I can
suggest is running your program under the control of a protocol spy,
like xscope or xmond, to see what's *really* getting passed, then
poking around with a debugger to see how come XtWindow(topLevel) is
that value.

There is one other problem I noticed with your code:

> static Window   busyWindow = NULL;

This is definitely wrong, though you will likely get away with it often
enough to cause trouble.  NULL can be any of several things, one of
which is (void *)0.  This is usually incompatible with the Window type.
What I would recommend is

static Window busyWindow = None;

coupled with a change from

> 	if (!busyWindow) {

to

	if (busyWindow != None) {

Some of this may be excessive paranoia; I'm not sure just how much the
Xlib interface spec promises....

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: huho%banruc60.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: No title in original
Date: 31 Aug 92 12:45:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <secVLfuDUMRZNYGkUb@freya>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:51:55 +0100 (BST)

Hello xperts,


I'm writing an application using the Athena widgets (R5) and I'm a bit puzzled
about one of the examples in contrib/examples/Xaw.
The example I'm refering to is xtext.c. The following  lines are used to
obtain the string from an asciiTextWidget named text.

   Arg args[1];
    String str;

    XtSetArg(args[0], XtNstring, &str);
    XtGetValues(text, args, ONE);

My question is :
Is it necessary to use &str as an argument to XtSetarg? str is of type String,
,so it's already a pointer. Wouldn't  str without the & be sufficient?

                        Thanks for any information,
                                Van Hove Hugo

Hugo Van Hove
University of Antwerp, RUCA
AI project
Groenenborgerlaan 171
B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium

Tel: +32 3 2180308
Fax: +32 3 2180217
Telex: RUCABI 33362

E-mail: huho@banruc60.bitnet
From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:29:42 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London

Date: 26 Aug 92 09:48:10 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug26.094810.5475@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,comp.human-factors

In article <BtKrw1.EEy@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>In article <id.3AOS.4A2@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>>(then there's the question of WHY IT TAKES SO MUCH GODDAMN MEMORY...
>>but that's apparently considered normal these days... I understand
>>WNT will require 8 MB)
>
>Like Apple's System 7 "requires" 2 MB.  The developers version of NT
>is pretty crammed in 12 MB.  Let's call it 16 MB.  (But then, by the
>time NT is released, 64 Mb DRAMs might be in production.)
>--
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>South Hadley, MA, USA        | Snail Mail: J. Botz, 01075-0629

Maybe the new technology NT stands for means the new computer technology
neded to run it!

Steve

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From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Hanging X11R4 server under AIX3.2.1
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:56:30 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Technical University of Vienna

Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:13:36 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug20.121336.10998@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x

In article <1992Aug20.085303.23888@fwi.uva.nl>, wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)) writes:
|> tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar) writes:
|> 
|> #  I am running AIX3.2.1 on more RS6000's (550's and 220's). In some cases
|> #(not quite reproducible), when the Xserver exits, the console keeps hanging.
|> #That means, that the Xserver process really exits, but the background with
|> #traces of some of the windows stays on the screen, and the console + keyboard
|> #are dead. The only help I know is reboot :(

This problem is known since AIX 3.1.3 and it's nice to see some workarounds
here, but the real question is, when will IBM will fix it ...

Joe

BTW, since I use xdm this problem doesn't happen to me.
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From: alek@spatial.com ("Alek O. Komarnitsky")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X-Terminals logging into HP-UX
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:34:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Spatial Technology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)

Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:55:30 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug13.235530.2250@spatial.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.windows.x

In article <Bsupyo.B6y@waterloo.hp.com> hart@waterloo.hp.com (Tony Hart) writes:
>kburrell@hns.com (Ken Burrell A-317) writes:
>: 
>: The question I have, does anyone have experience circumventing the HP VUE startup so that I get only the XDM equivalent portion controlling my X session?
>: I have been experimenting with the /usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin/Xsession file with mixed results at best. Any help would be appreciated. We are running HP-UX 8.07 with NCD 19c X-terminals.
>
>From the "HP System Administrator's Guide for the HP 700/RX":
>
>    To direct HP VUE to run an xdm .xsession script, use an editor to open the
>    file /usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin/Xsession and put one of the following sets
>    of lines just before the section of code that reads
>
>    For example, to run the xdm .xsession script on an X station called xterm1,
>    use 
>
>    case $DISPLAY in
>    xterm1:0.0) startup=/usr/lib/X11/xdm/sys.xsession;;
>    esac

Tony - have you ever tried this? [trick question!  ;-) ]

At least for us (HP710's w/HP-uX8.07 and B.03.00 X-server tape), the above
did not work - I had to leave the  .0  off - i.e. 
       xterm1:0) startup=/usr/lib/X11/xdm/sys.xsession;;

I tracked this down through the maze of startup files that are invoked;
but can't remember how I figured it out. Despite this minor error, let
me say that the overall documentation and setup of the HP X-terms is great!

Also, has enyone noticed that the initial clock (when running xdm) comes
up in Eastern time. I believe this is because /etc/src/src.{c}sh is not
executed, and so the time zone is not set. I got around this by adding
a TZ=MST7MDT; export TZ  in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/sys.xsession  near the top.

Happy users of HP X-terminals,

Alek Komarnitsky                                      303-449-0649
Software Tools Manager, Spatial Technology, Inc.      2425 55th Street, Bldg A
alek@spatial.com                                      Boulder, CO 80301-5704

P.S. Tony: Can you give us any hints when local window manager/client
     capability will be added to the 700/RX's?
From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 03:33:00 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: mlee@cs.arizona.edu (Michael (Yuk-Wo) Lee)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: OpenLook font problem
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:16:51 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

Date: 31 Aug 92 00:09:22 GMT
Message-Id: <21318@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I tried adding the openwin font directory to the font path by doing:

xset +fp /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/


The result is:

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operati
on)
  Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  4
  Current serial number in output stream:  6


Is there any reason why that happened?


Michael
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From: lecom@slhp1.epfl.ch (Claude Lecommandeur)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Color icons
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:28:52 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Date: 28 Aug 92 07:27:31 GMT
Message-Id: <3913@sicsun.epfl.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1948@coyote.UUCP>, riegel@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Riegel) writes:
|> 
|>   I've created several color pixmaps, and I was wondering how I can create
|> icons for them in Xlib (X11R4).  The icon_pixmap field of WMHints doesn't
|> seem to work, since some window managers (e.g. twm) only copy one bit plane of
|> the pixmap to the icon.  Is there a way to create an icon manually (i.e.
|> an independent icon, not necessarily created by iconifying a window) and
|> then copy the pixmap to it?  I've been using a window but I don't want all
|> the window manager gadgets.  Should I just override the window manager and
|> write all the routines to handle move, expose, etc. events manually?
|> 
|> -Jeff Riegel
|> riegel@almaden.ibm.com

    Create a window with your pixmap as background pixmap and give it in
the icon_window field of WMHints. Any decent window manager should use it.

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From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 10:12:26 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: sinan@mtesol.boeing.com (Sinan Karasu)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Sun Widget Set
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:55:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 14:54:00 PDT
Message-Id: <9208282154.AA24652@mtesol>


> Does anyone know of a "widget set" for Sun workstations that is layered upon
> Xlib and Xt?  We are looking at developing an interactive data visualization
> tool tailored to some special-purpose analysis requirements, and a "widget set

If you have Suns , you already have OLIT and XView...Just get DevGuide
and drag and drop away.....

Sinan