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From: rxg3321@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.X. Getter)
Subject: sticky control/alt/shift keys under x?
Originator: rxg3321@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:24:50 GMT

I am looking for a way to get sticky bucky bits on a sun workstation under X.
I am temporarily unable to use one of my hands for typing, and control and
shift keys are giving me gray hair.  Anyone who knows how to do this, please
let me know.  You will save my hands, my keyboard, my computer, and anything
near me when I eventually crack.

advTHANKSance,
rob

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: uejiowh@dssv01.crd.ge.COM
Subject: xinfo -
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:58:53 GMT

I have been told that this program exists.  Where can I find
information on it and possibly ftp it to my site?

thanks in advance,
Wayne Uejio             General Electric CRD   Disclaimer: opinions 
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Fax:    518-387-7080    Schenectady NY 12301   opinion
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Best WM? Vote for ctwm, plus good .ctwmrc file
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:07:35 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

In article <MUTS.93Jan7141241@PMCS.estec.esa.nl>, muts@estec.esa.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
|> >>On Mon, 4 Jan 93 11:35:19 GMT, sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) said:
|> 
|>   Rainer> One vote for olvwm, you get the virtual screens and much
|>   Rainer> more, and it's free !!!
|> 
|> One vote against olvwm. It is open look. (typing this on a SUN with
|> ^&*%#$ open look completely removed; I use plain X11R5 instead). Use
|> ctwm, it is like twm, thus completely customizable (the standard
|> customization is not very nice) but offers virtual screens as well. I
|> shall append my .ctwmrc file, which is quite nice:
|> 
|>  

 **example removed**

|> --
|> _________________________________________________________________________
|> Peter Mutsaers.         |================================================ 
|> muts@pmcs.estec.esa.nl  |        Quod licet bovi, non licet Jovi



I also love ctwm; but Peter's example .ctwmrc file didn't include an
example of another nice feature - the ability to place a new window
(or whatever) in a predetermined workspace. Here's what the man page
says:

Occupy { occupy-list }
         This  variable  specifies  which  window  occupy   which
         workspace at startup.

         Where occupy-list is a list entries of the form :

                   [Window]   win-name { wpsc1 wspc2 ... }
              or   Workspace  wspc-name {win1 win2 ... }

         Example :

              Occupy {
                             "xload"   {"all"}
                  Window     "xterm"   {"here" "there" "elsewhere"}
                             "xv"      {"images"}
                  WorkSpace  "images"  {"xloadimage"}
              }


BUT note that it doesn't matter when the window is called.




There is also a mapform for ctwm (shows map of all windows on all workspaces and
allows user to use mouse to manage these windows - simple to move windows from one
w'space to another and (of wanted) to warp cursor there)

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: garath@engin.umich.edu (Scott Grosch)
Subject: What is a Drawable
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 02:52:30 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor


Would someone please explain to me what a Drawable is and how to get
one?  For example, the XPM library functions want a Drawable as the
second argument for creating a pixmap, yet I can't find any good
documentation on how to get the Drawable argument.  Does it always
come from the toplevel widget, or can it be anything?

		-- Scott
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: An X mirror program
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:04:46 GMT

I just wonder if there is an X program that will allow a remote user
to see what is going on the host. (as if he was on the host)
A typical application is that when an operator at the console wants
to inform the administrator that he sees something wrong at the console,
the administrator should be able to remotely login and sees what
the operator is seeing.( some kind of a mirror window )

Thanks for any pointers.

--
thanh ma
tma@encore.com
From: mike@egf-bbs.uucp (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe)
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:25:37 GMT
Organization: EGF, MN Public Access Unix

In article <1993Jan7.215059.14738@egf-bbs.uucp> mike@egf-bbs.uucp (System Operator) writes:
>
>
>XIO:    fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "unix:0.0"
>	after 2165 requests (2155 known processed) with 0 events remainging.
>	The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or
>KillClient.
>
>xinit:  connection to X server lost
>
>BTW, right before I get this I start seeing...
>
>nifty% NFS server egf-bbs not responding still trying
>	NFS server egf-bbs ok
>

>
>Is this more likely a hardware or software problem?

I replaced Xsun with an old XsunMono and everything seems to work OK again.

Guess that means it was a software problem... :-)

Mike



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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.aix
From: hosseino@yu1.yu.edu (Joshua Hosseinof)
Subject: libXmu problems on Aix 3.2 RS/6000
Organization: Yeshiva University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:27:51 GMT
X-Posted-From: yu1.yu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I was able to successfully compile the X11R5 distribution on
our RS/6000, but I seem to having some problems with the Xmu library.
Some of the client programs which use this library compile and link
just fine, but when I run them they give me a whole bunch of Undefined
Symols Xt......  in libXmu.a
And then at the bottom it says
Exec Format error: libXmu.a[shr.o]
So I managed to trace the common denominator behind all these undefined
symbols, and it appears that they are all located in the include
file Intrinsic.h.   When I took a look at Intrinsic.h I noticed that
all of those symbols had #ifdef NeedFunctionPrototypes right
after the opening { of each symbol and an #endif right before
each closing } .  So is there some special linking or compiling flag
that I should use for building the libXmu library or for building
these clients, or should I change this Intrinsic.h file?
Any help would be appreciated.


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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20728 comp.windows.x.intrinsics:703 comp.windows.x.motif:8308
From: hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: An Open Challenge (it can't be done!)
Keywords: xor cursors images biscuits
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:37:33 GMT
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research Company

In article <78716@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4417a@prism.gatech.EDU (SKELTON,JOEL PHILLIP) writes:
|> 
|> After much thought I've gloomily concluded that nothing short
|> of a (unacceptable to our application) server extension will
|> give me quickly 'eraseable' diagonal lines on top of an image drawn
|> to an X window. I now challenge (nay, beg) someone to prove me wrong.
|> 
|> Here's the short form:
|>  - 8 bit image in backing pixmap used to update window
|>  - Image drawn in 8 bit X window
|>  - Want to draw diagonal lines on top of image that can
|>    be removed quickly (i.e. replace them with the data they so
|>    recently covered)
|>  - Can't do server extensions (too many platforms to support)
|> 
|> 
|> Betcha can't do it!
|> 

Yes it can be done. I've done it. I also need to draw on images like
yours. They are seismic data and the data is somewhat random. What I
did to draw arbitrary lines is to save the contents under the line. 
As you say, if the line is horizontal or vertical it's easy. The problem
is that a diagonal line needs to store all the data defined by the
the diagonal which grows in size as the line becomes longer of closer
to a 45 deg angle. This will cause the speed to slow down as the much larger
image areas are drawn. So I divide up the line into small segments and
save that area. I compute the optimum size of the box to make image transfer
fast (there is a tradeoff between the size of the division and the number
of calls to the server to get the data - making the size too small causes
more calls to the server thus slowing the pgm, making the size larger
makes the size of the returned image larger also slowing the pgm). I 
have to save a list of small images for each line I draw, but thats not
too hard. The performance is acceptable. I had to add a fudge factor in
the size of the box to account for lines wider than one pixel and for
the stairstepping of the diagonal line. Hope that helps.

-- 

======================
Bill Volz
Chevron Oil Field Research Co.
Exploration Research/Geophysics Division.
P.O. Box 446, La Habra, CA 90633-0446
Phone: (310) 694-9340
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Subject: X on IPX/SPX
Organization: SwitchView Inc., Waterloo, Ontario
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 08:32:55 GMT

Are there any X-terminals or PC X-servers which run on Novell IPX/SPX?
I realize I may run TCP on the Novell Network but that is not the question.

-- 
Vance Shipley 
vances@xenitec.on.ca         vances@switchview.com         vances@ltg.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kaskubar@mayo.edu (Bruce Kaskubar)
Subject: Voice
Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:13:16 GMT

Can X be used to capture (i.e., record) or play sound?

thx

Bruce Kaskubar
kaskubar@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tkevans@fallst (Tim Evans)
Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: Tim Evans
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:08:13 GMT

roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:

>I would recommend not to waste you time and money with one of the X
>implementations for the PC. Get yourself a copy of DESQVIEW/X - it turns
>you PC into a useful machine. Not only will you have an X desktop 
>(with a choice of OpenLook or MOtif window managers) you can also run
>multiple DOS sessions in fixed or scalable windows, you can run Windows
>as well. Naturally, being a full X server, you can log onto the SUN
>and run any X application. Not only that, you get real hardware based
>multi-tasking and, as icing on the cake, a SUN user can open a local
>window running a DOS application on the remote PC!

NOTE:  There's a TCP/IP add-on you must purchase to run on top of DVX
to accomplish all this.  It's about $150 (MSRP), I think.  *AND* you
must have a TCP/IP transport stack, such as PC/TCP or Lan Workplace
for DOS running as well.  And a network card, of course.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip A Guenther)
Subject: X11R5 and Type 1 fonts
Organization: Academic Computing Center, St. Olaf College
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:19:08 GMT

  I'm currently compiling X11R5 and I'd like to include the Type 1
font renderer included in the contrib.  After following the (skimpy)
directions, it compiled with one error: 1 reference each was made to
nonexistent members of the FontPtr struct by the Type1OpenScalable()
function in t1funcs.c.  Since they were the only references, I
commented them out ( *DANGER* *DANGER* ) and it compiles okay.

 However, now when I test it, every so often, while referencing a Type
1 font (usually -adobe-courier-medium-r-*) it just dies.  If the
server is doing the rendering, then it dies totally.  The font server
will report bus error as it dies.  I haven't tracked down the problem,
partly from a lack of time, and partly because I have a feeling that
this may have been corrected in a later release.  But if so, where?  I
just snarfed this stuff from
export.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/R5/contrib/contrib-*,  Isn't that the
authoritive place for X stuff?  Any help would be appreciated greatly,
as the alternative is to rip the Type 1 stuff back out.

Thanks!

Philip Guenther

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror)
Subject: Re: xconsole client cannot open console..
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:00:33 GMT

I have changed the ownership of xconsole. It did not solve  the problem.
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From: erb@fullfeed.fullfeed.com (David Erb)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: how to determine ID of keyboard focus window?
Date: 10 Jan 93 09:41:41 GMT
Organization: FullFeed - Public Access Usenet/E-mail (+1 608 246 2701 guest)

Specific:
How do I determine the window ID of the window which
has the input focus?  I will be sending synthetic KeyPress
events to this window, therefore I need the true ID, a number
like "0x0100064", not the enumerated constant InputFocus
which is a number like "1".  Sometimes GetInputFocus()
returns the former, sometimes the latter.  An
example of the latter is xman's Search subwindow
string input field.

Background:
I wrote a nifty program to take ASCII input from a serial
tty and send the characters to the X server as events. 
Since the input normally comes from a keyboard attached
to the serial tty, I would want the events to go to the
same place events from the console keyboard go to.  I
presume this would be the InputFocus, hence my use of
GetInputFocus().  Is there a better way to let the clients
know about the keys being typed on the serial keyboard?
They keyboard is one of those wierd ones for people with
hurt hands, so I want keystrokes to go to all clients,
not just one application.

If anyone wants the program, it works for some clients
(at least xterm, epoch and emacs) running with twm on
X11R5 PL 9 on Sun 4.1.1.  I'll be glad to distribute it.

Please answer by direct email, I will post a summary.
Thanks in advance, 
David Erb erb@fullfeed.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.security,comp.unix.wizards
From: humphrey@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Jeff Humphrey [Jeffus])
Subject: xnet (X-Net 1.1)
Organization: Computer Security, Naval Research Lab
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:57:34 GMT

  xnet (X-Net Version 1.1) is a simple X-Windows that maps the route
  taken by packets to specified sites.  Based on the low ttl idea
  presented by Van Jacobson in his program 'traceroute'.  Tested on
  color and b/w SparcStation(s) running 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 ...

  Questions/Comments/Bugs to (xnet@hightop.nrl.navy.mil)

  anonymous at hightop.nrl.navy.mil (/nrl/xnet.tar.Z)

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From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:47:38 GMT
Subject: Re: colormaps
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In comp.windows.x, main@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (John Main) writes:

> I can now load these pictures in the background, but then all of my
> applications that I pull up after that scream about not being able to allocate
> colors.  I guess my question is:  how do I load an image into the background
> without changing the default colormap.
 
Use the xv "-ncols" option to restrict the number of colors used to 
display the gif.  This will reduce the realism of the background image, 
but will also save colormap entries for your other applications.

--
Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
Systems Technology Division
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:57:41 EST
From: <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R4 Macintosh Software

Going through various FAQs I have found that X can be obtained for the
macintosh for $300.  However, there appears to be some X software included
with the X11R4 distribution for the mac.  What is this code?  Is it
server software?

Scott
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20863 comp.windows.x.motif:8404
From: brenner@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David L. Brenner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: How do I switch windows with  a keyboard?
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: dbrenner@cbis.com
Followup-To: dbrenner@cbis.com
Organization: University of Cincinnati

We are developing a product that is using X11R5 and MOTIF for a set of
users who are not used to using a mouse.  They wanted the ability to 
navigate between windows entirely by using the keyboard.

Is there a way to switch between windows using JUST the keyboard?

Please respond to dbrenner@cbis.com.

Thanks in advance.

David Brenner
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"Sorry, guys -- breaking into computers and writing a stupid virus
 doesn't make you a hacker.  It's not that easy."
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: y0000013@rznb15.rz.tu-bs.de (Stein)
Subject: XSendEvent - Drag and Drop ?
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:49:06 GMT

I want to implement "Drag and Drop" with XSendEvent to PointerWindow.
How I have to fill the XEvent structure?
How I have to add the EventHandler?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Subject: RE: maximum string width
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:33:11 GMT

#
#I am looking for creative ways to solve the following problem:
#
#I have a bunch of strings (~1500) and I want to figure out what the
#width of the widest string is exactly.  Things to consider:
#	1) It can be for any font (especially var. width).
#	2) I *don't* want just the maximum char width for that font
#	   multiplied by the number of chars in the largest string.
#

Use XTextWidth().  See your Xlib documentation for details.

Patrick L. Mahan

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From: bretth@hpuxsyd.HP.COM (Brett Hardman)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:34:43 GMT
Subject: PC X-term emulation across a WAN
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Sydney, Australia
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi All, 

        We need information on PC X-term emulation under Windows 3.1 operating
across a WAN to a HP-UX host. Has anyone had any experience with a similar
environment and the effect on the network load?

Please email your replies to Chris Sweet (chriss@hpuxsyd.aus.hp.com).
Thanks.
Regards,
Brett Hardman

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:16:24 GMT

In article <C0MnHA.G79@quadsys.com> roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
>wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:
>: Hi there,
>: 
>: We are on a LAN running Novell netware 3.11.  We are connected to the
>: outside world (campus ethernet) through a bridge from this. The SUN
>: (down the hall from me) is connected to the campus ethernet and has a
>: known address (My 386 has an ethernet address as well).  We can logon
>: the SUN and run terminal sessions but what we want is to run an X-
>: windows session complete with graphics etc.  So it seems what we're
>: looking for is software that will emulate an X-windows terminal.
>: 
>: Can anyone give me some suggestion?
>: Any comments would be welcome, thanks,
>: 
>
>I would recommend not to waste you time and money with one of the X
>implementations for the PC. Get yourself a copy of DESQVIEW/X - it turns
>you PC into a useful machine. Not only will you have an X desktop 
>(with a choice of OpenLook or MOtif window managers) you can also run
>multiple DOS sessions in fixed or scalable windows, you can run Windows
>as well. Naturally, being a full X server, you can log onto the SUN
>and run any X application. Not only that, you get real hardware based
>multi-tasking and, as icing on the cake, a SUN user can open a local
>window running a DOS application on the remote PC!
>
>My wife has used DESQVIEW/X for about 6 months with great success on
>a 33MHz 386 networked to my SUN and DECStation. With an universal programmer
>attached to the PC, I can program PAL/PROMS directly from the SUN by
>running a remote DOS session.
>
>The only drawback is that you need LOTS of memory - 8MB minimum, 16MB
>is better.
>
>-- 
>
>Roland Besserer
>QUAD Systems
>roland@quadsys.com	

Or, you can get Linux or 386bsd and run X on your PC. If you use XS3,
 an X server for a S3 cards, with a 486/50Mhz you will get the same or better graphic's performance than a sun workstation. Total cost of the software $0 :-)

XS3 is known to work with open-look, motif, and twm, etc...

For a performance comparison of vga cards on the PC see Jan 93' Byte.

Amancio
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From: beck@irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Success! Eureka!  Cancel that last post...
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:22:35 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Andre_Beck@IRS.Inf.TU-Dresden.DE
NNTP-Posting-Host: irzr17.inf.tu-dresden.de


In article <1jm6zb#0fJwbK4lwpNj8ZzxLR1HQvRg=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> 
> The bad news is that the way I found to make this work was to use a series of
> XFillRectangle() calls in place of a single XFillRectangles().  I now believe
> that there is a bug or undocumented limit in the generic XFillRectangles code
> itself that was causing this problem.  'Ware hackers!


There's one generic limit with all the calls using Protocol Requests for
lists of items directly. The problem is, xlib DOESN'T itself subdivide
a HUGE request to fit into the Maximum Protocol Request Size.

I know of simple code that uses big XDrawSegments() calls that caused
XServers to crash. Early Versions of X3d where known for this.

Newer Versions now send only XDrawSegment() calls that will fit into
the Max Request Size and now it is stable.

MAY be your problem is the same ?

BTW, I agree with the statement "an undocumented limit", because I found
this problem on coding too, not in any literature...

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