From: dbl@ics.com (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1/6
Date: 29 Aug 1994 13:11:28 GMT
Organization: ICS
Message-ID: <33smq0$e0c@ics.com>

Archive-name: x-faq/part1
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

This article and several following contain the answers to some Frequently Asked 
Questions (FAQ) often seen in comp.windows.x. It is posted to help reduce 
volume in this newsgroup and to provide hard-to-find information of general 
interest.

		Please redistribute this article!

This article includes answers to the following questions, which are loosely
grouped into categories. Questions marked with a + indicate questions new to 
this issue; those with significant changes of content since the last issue are 
marked by !:

  0)  TOPIC: BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS
  1)! What books and articles on X are good for beginners?
  2)  What courses on X and various X toolkits are available?
  3)! What conferences on X are coming up?
  4)! What X-related public mailing lists are available?
  5)  How can I meet other X developers? (What X user groups are there?)
  6)!  What related FAQs are available?
  7)  How do I ask a net-question so as to maximize helpful responses?
  8)  What publications discussing X are available?
  9)  What are these common abbreviations/acronyms?
 10)  What is the ICCCM? (How do I write X-friendly applications?)
 11)  What is the X Consortium, and how do I join?
 12)  Just what are OPEN LOOK and Motif?
 13)  What is "low-bandwidth X" (LBX)? XRemote? PPP? SLIP? CSLIP?
 14)  TOPIC: USING X IN DAY-TO-DAY LIFE
 15)! What are all these window managers? (Where can I get a "virtual" wm?)
 16)  Why does my X session exit when I kill my window manager (sic)?
 17)  Can I save the state of my X session, like toolplaces does?
 18)  How do I use another window manager with DEC's session manager?
 19)  How do I change the keyboard auto-repeat rate?
 20)  How do I remap the keys on my keyboard to produce a string?
 21)! How do I make a screendump or print my application (including menus)?
 22)  How do I make a color PostScript screendump of the X display?
 23)  How do I make a screendump including the X cursor?
 24)  How do I convert or view Mac/TIFF/GIF/Sun/PICT/img/FAX images in X?
 25)  Where can I get an X-based 3-D object viewer?
 26)  How can I change the titlebar of my xterm window?
 27)  Where can I find the xterm control sequences?
 28)  How can I use characters above ASCII 127 in xterm ?
 29)  Why are my xterm menus so small (sic) ?
 30)  How can I print the current X selection?
 31)  How does Xt use environment variables in loading resources?
 32)  How to I have xdm put a picture behind the log-in window?
 33)  Why isn't my PATH set when xdm runs my .xsession file?
 34)  How do I keep my $DISPLAY when I rlogin to another machine?
 35)  How can I design my own font?
 36)  Why does adding a font to the server not work (sic)?
 37)  How do I convert a ".snf" font back to ".bdf" font?
 38)  What is a general method of getting a font in usable format?
 39)  How do I use DECwindows fonts on my non-DECwindows server?
 40)  How do I get a font name from the structure?
 41)  How can I set backgroundPixmap in a defaults file? (What is XPM?) 
 42)  Why can't I override translations? Only the first item works. (sic)
 43)  How can I have a clock show different timezones?
 44)  I have xmh, but it doesn't work. Where can I get MH?
 45)  Why am I suddenly unable to connect to my Sun X server?  
 46)  Why don't the R5 PEX demos work on my mono screen?
 47)  How do I get my Sun Type-[45] keyboard fully supported by Xsun?
 48)  How do I report bugs in X?
 49)  Why do I get "Warning: Widget class version mismatch"?
 50)  Why does my SPARC say "Mapping cg3c: No such device or address"?
 51)  Where can I find a dictionary server for xwebster?
 52)  TOPIC: OBTAINING X AND RELATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
 53)  Is X public-domain software?
 54)  How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there?
 55)  When is X11R6 available?
 56)  What is Fresco? When is Fresco rumored to be available?
 57)  Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8?
 58)! Where can I get X11R6 (source and/or binaries)?
 59)  Where can I get X11R5 (source and/or binaries)?
 60)  Where can I get XDM's Wraphelp.c ?
 61)! Where can I get patches to X11? 
 62)  What is the xstuff mail-archive?
 63)  Where can I get X11R4 (source and binaries)?
 64)  Where can I get OSF/Motif?
 65)  Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5?
 66)  Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK?
 67)  Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications)
 68)! Where can I get interesting widgets?
 69)! Where can I get a good file-selector widget?
 70)  Where can I find a hypertext widget in source code?
 71)  What widget is appropriate to use as a drawing canvas?
 72)  What is the current state of the world in X terminals?
 73)  Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen?
 74)  Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)?
 75)  Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS?
 76)  Where can I get X for the Amiga?
 77)  Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home?
 78)  Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation?
 79)  Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board?
 80)  Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50?
 81)  What terminal emulators other than xterm are available?
 82)  Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor?
 83)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor?
 84)  Where can I get an X-based mailer?
 85)  Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program?
 86)  Where can I get an X-based plotting program?
 87)  Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program?
 88)! Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet?
 89)  Where can I get X-based project-management software?
 90)  Where can I get an X-based PostScript previewer?
 91)  Where can I get an X-based GKS package?
 92)  Where can I get an X-based GL package?
 93)! Where can I get an X-based PEX package?
 94)  Where can I get an X-based TeX or DVI previewer?
 95)! Where can I get an X-based troff previewer?
 96)! Where can I get a WYSIWYG interface builder (or other shortcuts)?
 97)  Where can I find X tools callable from shell scripts?
 98)  Where can I get an X-based debugger?
 99)! How can I "tee" an X program identically to several displays? 
100)! Can I use C++ with X11? Motif? XView?
101)  Where can I obtain alternate language bindings to X/Xt/Motif?
102)  TOPIC: BUILDING THE X DISTRIBUTION [topic needs updating to R6]
103)  What's a good source of information on configuring the X build?
104)  Why doesn't my Sun with a cg6 work with R5?
105)  Why doesn't my Sun with SunOS 4.1 know about _dlsym, etc.?
106)  What is this "_get_wmShellWidgetClass undefined" error?
107)  What's this problem with undefined _X symbols on SunOS 4.1.3?
108)  Why does cc get used when I build X11R5 with gcc?
109)  What are these I/O errors running X built with gcc?
110)  What are these problems compiling the X server on SunOS 4.1.1?
111)  Can OW 3.0 OLIT programs run with R5 Xt? (_XtQString undefined)
112)  How do I get around the SunOS 4.1 security hole?
113)  How do I get around the frame-buffer security hole?
114)  TOPIC: BUILDING X PROGRAMS 
115)  What is Imake?
116)  Where can I get imake?
117)  I have a program with an Imakefile but no Makefile. What to do?
118)  Why can't I link to the Xlib shape routines?
119)  What are these problems with "_XtInherit not found" on the Sun?
120)  TOPIC: PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES
121)  Why doesn't my program get the keystrokes I select for (sic)?
122)  How do I deiconify a window?
123)  How do I figure out what window manager is running?
124)  Is there a skeleton X program available?
125)  Why does XtGetValues not work for me (sic)?
126)  Why don't XtConfigureWidget/XtResizeWidget/XtMoveWidget work?
127)  Why isn't there an XtReparentWidget call like XReparentWindow?
128)  I'm writing a widget and can't use a float as a resource value.
129)  Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 XtDestroyWidget()?!
130)  Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 deletion of work procs?!
131)  Why does the process size of my X programs go up,up,up?
132)  Are callbacks guaranteed to be called in the order registered?
133)  Why doesn't XtDestroyWidget() actually destroy the widget?
134)  How do I query the user synchronously using Xt?
135)  How do I determine the name of an existing widget?
136)  Why do I get a BadDrawable error drawing to XtWindow(widget)?
137)  Where can I get documentation on Xaw, the Athena widget set?
138)  What's the difference between actions and callbacks?
139)  How do I simulate a button press/release event for a widget?
140)!  Can I make Xt or Xlib calls from a signal handler?
141)  What are these "Xlib sequence lost" errors?
142)  How can my Xt program handle socket, pipe, or file input?
143)  What's this R6 error: X Toolkit Error: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues?
144)  Why do I get a BadMatch error when calling XGetImage?
145)  How can my application tell if it is being run under X?
146)  How do I make a "busy cursor" while my application is computing?
147)  How do I fork without hanging my parent X program?
148)  Why doesn't anything appear when I run this simple program?
149)  What is the difference between a Screen and a screen?
150)  Can XGetWindowAttributes get a window's background pixel/pixmap?
151)  How do I create a transparent window?
152)  Why doesn't GXxor produce mathematically-correct color values?
153)  Why does every color I allocate show up as black?
154)  Why do I get a protocol error when creating a cursor (sic)?
155)  Why can't my program get a standard colormap?
156)  Why does the pixmap I copy to the screen show up as garbage? 
157)  How can I most quickly send an image to the X server? 
158)  How do I check whether a window ID is valid?
159)  Can I have two applications draw to the same window?
160)  Why can't my program work with tvtwm or swm?
161)  Can I rely on a server which offers backing store?  
162)  How do I catch the "close window" event to avoid "fatal IO error"?
163)  How do I keep a window from being resized by the user?
164)  How do I keep a window in the foreground at all times?
165)  How do I make text and bitmaps blink in X?
166)  How do I get a double-click in Xlib?
167)  How do I render rotated text?
168)  Why doesn't my multi-threaded X program work (sic) ? 
169)  What is the X Registry? (How do I reserve names?)

If you have suggestions or corrections for any of these answers or any 
additional information, please send them directly to uunet!craft!faq;
the information will be included in the next revision (or possibly the one 
after that; thanks for the many suggestions which haven't been incorporated 
yet). 

This version of the FAQ is in the process of having outdated information 
replaced by R6 information.

This posting is intended to be distributed monthly.  New versions are
archived on ftp.x.org and rtfm.mit.edu and are also available from
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and archive-server@nic.switch.ch (send "help").

ftp.x.org was previously known as export.lcs.mit.edu; x.org was previously 
known as expo.lcs.mit.edu. The general WWW server for the X Consortium is
http://www.x.org/.

The information contained herein has been gathered from a variety of sources. 
In many cases attribution has been lost; if you would like to claim 
responsibility for a particular item, please let me know. 

Conventions used below: telephone numbers tend to be Bell-system unless 
otherwise noted; prices on items are not included; email addresses are those
that work from the US.

X Window System and Fresco are trademarks of X Consortium, Inc.  Other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(Note: a script by George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu) to pretty-print
this faq is available from ugle.unit.no:/pub/X11/contrib/xfaq2texinfo.)


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Subject:   0)  TOPIC: BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS
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Subject:   1)! What books and articles on X are good for beginners?

A bibliography containing cites of all known reference books and how-to
manuals and also cites of selected technical articles on X and X programming
is regularly posted to comp.windows.x; it is ftp-able as
ftp.x.org:/contrib/docs/Xbibliography.ps and
gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/X11/R5-contrib/Xbibliography. The current maintainer
is Steve Mikes, smikes%topgun@uunet.uu.net.

Here is an unordered set of the reference books and tutorials most useful for
beginners; most appear on that list [comments are gathered from a variety of 
places and are unattributable]:

Asente, Paul J., and Swick, Ralph R., "X Window System Toolkit, The Complete
Programmer's Guide and Specification", Digital Press, 1990.  The bible on Xt. A
treasury of information, excellent and invaluable.  Distributed by Digital 
Press, ISBN 1-55558-051-3, order number EY-E757E-DP; and by Prentice-Hall, 
ISBN 0-13-972191-6. Also available through DEC Direct at 1-800-DIGITAL. 
[The examples are on ftp.x.org in contrib/ and on gatekeeper.dec.com
(16.1.0.2) in pub/X11/contrib as asente-swick.examples.tar.Z.  They were also
posted to comp.sources.x as xt-examples/part0[1-5].]

Jones, Oliver, Introduction to the X Window System, Prentice-Hall, 1988,
1989.  ISBN 0-13-499997-5. An excellent introduction to programming with
Xlib.  Written with the programmer in mind, this book includes many practical
tips that are not found anywhere else. This book is not as broad as the
O'Reilly Xlib tutorial, but Jones is an experienced X programmer and this
shows in the quality and depth of the material in the book.

Young, Doug. "The X Window System: Applications and Programming with Xt
(Motif Version)," Prentice Hall, 1989 (ISBN 0-13-497074-8). The excellent
tutorial "X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt," (ISBN
0-13-972167-3) updated for Motif. [Sources used to be on ftp.x.org; they are
known to be also on ftp.funet.fi in /pub/X11/contrib/.] A Motif 1.2 version
of this book is in progress.

Young, Doug and John Pew, "The X Window System: Programming and Applications
with Xt, OPEN LOOK Edition" (ISBN 0-13-982992-X). The tutorial rewritten for
OLIT, with new examples and drag/drop information. [Examples are on ftp.x.org
in youg.olit.tar.Z and in you OpenWindows 3 distribution in
$OPENWINHOME/share/src/olit/olitbook.]

Heller, Dan and Paula Ferguson. "Motif Programmers Manual".  The 6th volume
in the O'Reilly series covers application programming with Motif 1.2 and
earlier, including UIL; it's full of good examples (ISBN 1-56592-016-3).
Volume 6B is a reference book on Motif and UIL (ISBN ISBN 1-56592-038-4).
[The examples are available on uunet in the nutshell archives.]

Scheifler, Robert, and James Gettys, with Jim Flowers and David Rosenthal, "X
Window System: The Complete Reference to Xlib, X Protocol, ICCCM, XLFD, X
Version 11, Release 5, Third Edition," Digital Press, 1992. "The Bible" in
its latest revision, an enhanced version of X documentation by the authors of
the Xlib documentation. This is the most complete published description of
the X programming interface and X protocol. It is the primary reference work
and is not introductory tutorial documentation; additional tutorial works
will usually be needed by most new X programmers.  Digital Press order
EY-J802E-DP, ISBN 0-13-971201-1.

Nye, Adrian, "Xlib Programming Manual, Volume 1" and "Xlib Reference Manual,
Volume 2," O'Reilly and Associates.  The first volume is a tutorial with
broad coverage of Xlib, and the second contains reference pages for Xlib
functions and many useful reference appendices.  Both cover X11R5 (and R4).
ISBN 0-937175-26-9 (volume 1) and ISBN 0-937175-27-7 (volume 2).

Nye, Adrian, and Tim O'Reilly, "X Toolkit Programming Manual, Volume 4,"
O'Reilly and Associates, 1989, 1992. The folks at O'Reilly give their
comprehensive treatment to programming with the Xt Intrinsics, using the
Athena widgets in the examples; R5 versions are now available, as is a Motif
1.2 version (Volume 4M).

O'Reilly, Tim, ed.,  "X Toolkit Reference Manual, Volume 5," O'Reilly and
Associates. A professional reference manual for the X11R5 and X11R4 Xt.

Mansfield, Niall. "The X Window System: A User's Guide," Addison-Wesley,
1989.  A tutorial introduction to using X, now upgraded for R4. ISBN
0-201-51341-2.

Quercia, Valerie and Tim O'Reilly. "X Window System User's Guide," O'Reilly
and Associates. A tutorial introduction to using X. ISBN 0-937175-36-6.  
Covers R5; available in Athena and Motif editions.

Mui, Linda and Eric Pearce. "X Window System Administrator's Guide for X11 R4
and R5" [ORA Volume 8]. Help for X users and administrators.  ISBN
0-937175-83-8.

Drafts of John Ousterhout's upcoming book on TCL/TK are on sprite.berkeley.edu
(128.32.150.27) in /tcl. The final book will be published early 1994 by
Addison-Wesley, ISBN #0-201-63337-X.

(Prentice-Hall ordering is 201-767-5937. O'Reilly ordering is 800-998-9938
or 707-829-0515; ORA may also be contacted via email at order@ora.com or by
logging into gopher.ora.com as gopher.)

In addition, check the X11R4 and X11R5 core distribution in doc/tutorials for
some useful papers and tutorials, particularly the file answers.txt.  "Late
Night's Top Ten X11 Questions" by Dave Lemke (lemke@ncd.com) and Stuart Marks
(smarks@sun.com) answers other common questions and some of these here in
more detail.

A single volume, "Programmer's Supplement for R5" by David Flanagan, provides
an overview of new R5 features; it includes man pages for Xlib, Xt, and Xmu.
As of 10/93, its contents have been merged into other O'Reilly volumes, and
it is out of print.  [ISBN 0-937175-86-2]

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Subject:   2)  What courses on X and various X toolkits are available?

AT&T offers training in Xlib and in the Xol set. Contact AT&T Corporate
Education & Training for more info; 1-800-TRAINER in the USA.

BIM Educational Services offers training in X administration and in
programming with Xt/Motif and Open Windows; the courses are given near
Brussels. Info: edu@sunbim.be, voice +32-(0)2-7595925, fax +32-(0)2-7599209.

Bluestone Consulting, Inc. offers several multi-day, hands-on training
courses in X, Xt, Motif, C, C++, and UIM/X.  Information is available at
609-727-4600 or blustone!info@uunet.uu.net.

Communica Software Consultants offers three-day hands-on courses in X
designed for the X Window System developer and programmer. Contact Chris
Clarkson, telephone 61 8 3732523, e-mail communica@communica.oz.au. [12/92]

Cora Computer Technologies (516-485-7343) offers several courses.

GHCT offers a one week lecture/lab course for programmers designed by Douglas
Young based on his book "The X Window System: Programming and Applications
with Xt, OSF/Motif Edition". Information: Brian Stell (415-966-8805 or
ghct!brian@sgi.com).

GHG offers a range of courses on X and Motif. Information:  713-488-8806 or
training-info@ghg.hou.tx.us.

Hands On Learning has live training and self-paced video workshops on topics
such as using and/or programming X, Xlib, Xm, and Xt.  Information:
617-272-0088, 800-248-9133.

Hewlett-Packard (1-800-HPCLASS; or contact your local HP center) offers a
2-day "Introduction to X", a 5-day Xlib course, a 1-day Xt and Motif 1.1
seminar, and a 5-day Motif lab course.

Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., offers several multi-day, hands-on
courses on X, Xt, and the Xaw and Motif widget sets, in particular.
Information is available at 617-621-0060 and info@ics.com.

Intelligent Visual Computing teaches several lab courses on-site for Motif
and XView. IVC is at 1-800-776-2810 or +1 919-481-1353 or at info@ivc.com.

Iris Computing Laboratories offers five-day Xlib and Xt courses.  Info:
+1-505-988-2670 or info@spectro.com.

IXI Limited (+44 223 462 131) offers regular X training courses for both
programmers and non-technical managers. See also: Unipalm, below.

Learning Tree International offers a four-day course in X Window System
applications development, including Xlib and some information on Motif.  For
more info call 800-824-9155 (213-417-3484); 613-748-7741 in Canada. Courses
are offered in major North American cities; also in London, Stockholm, Tokyo,
and elsewhere.

Lurnix offers several 3- to 5-day courses on using X and programming with
Xlib and Motif. Information is available at 800-875-4478.

Non Standard Logics (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers courses on
programming with Xlib, Motif, and creating Motif widgets.

OSF Educational Services (617-621-8778) offers one-day seminars and one-week
Motif lab courses.

John A. Pew offers a 5-day course on OLIT, possibly based on his book on that
subject; 408-224-5739.

SCO (+44 923 816344, scol-info@sco.COM) offers training for its Open Desktop
(Motif) environment in the UK and Europe.

Software Pundits (617-270-0639) offers a range of courses.

Technology Exchange (617-944-3700) offers a 4-day Xlib/Xt/Motif course.

Alsys (formerly TeleSoft) is now offering a 1-day plus 3-day seminar on X and
Motif.  Information: Bruce Sherman (619-457-2700, bds@telesoft.com).

Unipalm XTech offers OSF's 5-day Motif course and a 1-day overview on X.
Information: Unipalm Training at +44 952  211797, xtech@unipalm.co.uk.

The University of Edinburgh is developing a series of courses on X and
related topics primarily for non-profit-making training in academia but also
for commercial use. Information: Cliff Booth, Unipalm Ltd, phone +44 223
420002, fax +44 223 426868.

Various other vendors are also beginning to offer X training, usually
specific to a proprietary toolkit or to Xt and a proprietary widget set: DEC
is offering Xlib courses; Sun offers an XView course.

Various universities are offering short X courses or overviews: UCLA,
Dartmouth, University of Lowell, University of Canberra (within Australia:
062-522422) ...

Among the best places to find courses are at the various Unix conferences --
Uniforum, Usenix, Unix Expo, Xhibition, the X Technical Conference, the ACM
tutorial weeks, &c.

In addition, the X Consortium posts approximately quarterly a list of
unendorsed speakers and consultants who can provide talks on a variety of X
topics.

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Subject:   3)! What conferences on X are coming up?

The European X User Group holds an annual conference which typically includes
includes paper presentations and a vendor exhibit.  The 1994 conference will
be at the Edinburgh Conference Centre on 27th and 28th October. Information:
EXUG '94, PO Box 458, Cambridge, CB4 4AA Tel: 0954 789095, Fax: 0954 781797,
Email: info@exug.demon.co.uk, WWW:
<http://www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/EXUG/>.

The Motif/COSE show is held in Washington to coincide with the FedUnix and
the Federal Open Systems Conference.  Information:  motif@fedunix.org or
paller@fedunix.org, 301-229-1062, fax 301-229-1063.

The X Technical Conference is typically held in January in Boston; the 9th
Annual will be held January 30 - February 1, 1995 at the Marriott Copley
Place Hotel in Boston, MA. It includes tutorials and technical talks.
Registration information is available from registration@x.org, fax +1
617-253-7002. Other information is typically on ftp.x.org in
/pub/DOCS/XConsortium/ (you can use the URL
http://www.x.org/ftp/pub/DOCS/XConsortium).

The XWorld Conference and Exhibition includes tutorials, panels,
presentations and vendor exhibits. It is typically held in March in New York
City.  Information: SIGS Publication Group at 212-274-9135.

The Xhibition trade show and conference includes tutorials, panels,
presentations, and vendor exhibits, and is usually held at the San Jose
Convention Center in June. Information: +1 617 621 0060, xhibit@ics.com.

The Andrew Technical Conference is usually held the day after Xhibition
closes, in the same space. information: Susan Straub at (412) 268-7326,
<susan+@andrew.cmu.edu>

Other trade shows -- UnixExpo, Uniforum, Siggraph -- show an increasing
presence of X, including tutorials and exhibits.

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Subject:   4)! What X-related public mailing lists are available?

The xpert mailing list is the general, public mailing list on X maintained by
the X Consortium. The mailings are gatewayed, so xpert is almost identical to
the comp.windows.x Usenet newsgroup.

	***     If you get comp.windows.x, you don't need to    *** 
	*** 	be added to the xpert mailing list.             ***

Otherwise, you can join the list to receive X information electronically. It
is best to find a local distribution; perhaps someone within your company is
already receiving the mailing. As a last resort, send mail to
xpert-request@x.org with a valid return electronic address.

The xannounce mailing list carries major X announcements, such as new
releases (including public patches from the Consortium), public reviews,
adoption of standards by the X Consortium, and conference announcements.  It
does NOT carry advertisements, source code, patches, or questions.  If you
already receive the Usenet news group comp.windows.x.announce or the xpert
mailing list, you don't need to be added to the xannounce mailing list.
Otherwise, to subscribe, send a request to xannounce-request@x.org. Note:
only redistribution addresses will be accepted for this list -- i.e. no
personal addresses. If you wish to receive xannounce yourself, please contact
your mail administrator to set up a local redistribution list and to put you
on it.

comp.windows.x.apps is not gatewayed to a mailing list.

In addition, the X Consortium sponsors these public lists:
		bug-clx         CLX bug reports and discussions
		x-ada           X and ada 
		x11-3d          X and 3d graphics 
		ximage          image processing and X 
		xvideo          discussion of video extensions for X 
		x-agent		protocols for external agents (e.g. editres) 

To subscribe to any of the above mailing lists, send mail to the list with
"-request" appended; this example adds pat@mumble.widget.com to the xpert
mailing list:

	% mail xpert-request@x.org
	Subject: (none needed)
	subscribe xpert pat@mumble.widget.com
	^D

To unsubscribe:

	% mail xpert-request@x.org
	Subject: (none needed)
	unsubscribe
	^D

Other lists include:

A mailing list discussing the Andrew User Interface System (formerly Andrew
Toolkit) is maintained by the Andrew Consortium.  To subscribe, write to
info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu and specify whether you want messages in
Andrew format or ASCII.  The ASCII versions are copied to netnews group
comp.soft-sys.andrew.

A mailing list discussing the TeleUSE builder can be subscribed to by sending
a request to teleusers-request@alsys.com.

A mailing list discussing the UIM/X builder can be subscribed to by sending a
subject line of "subscribe" to uimx-request@ivev.bau.tu-bs.de.

A mailing list to address issues of using Motif on Sun workstations is
sponsored by Freedom Software at freedom@telerama.pgh.pa.us.

A mailing list for the Motif-C++ bindings is sponsored by Ronald van Loon;
subscribe to motif++-request@motif.xs4all.nl.

A mailing list for topics related to the XPM pixmap-format is sponsored by
Arnaud Le Hors of Group Bull; send to xpm-talk-request@sophia.inria.fr for
information.

A mailing list for SUIT users is available from
suit-users-request@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu. (This group is gatewayed to
the newsgroup comp.windows.suit.)

A mailing list for imake users is available by sending "subscribe imake-talk"
to imake-talk-request@primate.wisc.edu.

A mailing list for topics related to Motif is sponsored by Brian Dealy;
subscribe to motif-request@lobo.gsfc.nasa.gov. (This group is gatewayed to
the newsgroup comp.windows.x.motif.)

A mailing list (amiga-x11@nic.funet.fi) for topics related to the port of X11
to the Amiga can be subscribed by sending to mailserver@nic.funet.fi a
message containing
		Subject: Adding myself to AMIGA-X11 
		SUBS AMIGA-X11 Your Real Name 

A mailing list for MetaCard users is available by sending to
listserv@grot.starconn.com a message containing
		subscribe metacard-list firstname lastname 
		quit

A mailing list for Wafe users is available by sending to 
listserv@wu-wien.ac.at a message containing
		subscribe Wafe <Your Name>
		help

A mailing list discussing the fvwm window manager can be subscribed to
by sending to majordomo@shrug.org a message containing
		subscribe fvwm

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Subject:   5)  How can I meet other X developers? (What X user groups are there?)

O'Reilly and Associates sponsors a mailing list for the use of X user group
organizers; subscribe by sending to listserv@ora.com the message "subscribe
xgroups your@internet.address".

Local area X user's groups are listed in Issue 4 of O'Reilly's X Resource
journal.

The French X User Group is called AFUX and is based in Sophia Antipolis by
CERICS. Information can be obtained from Miss Vasseur or Miss Forest; BP 148;
157, rue Albert Einstein; 06561 Valbonne Cedex; Phone:  +33 93 95 45 00 / 45
01; Fax: +33 93 95 48 57.  [10/90]

The European X User Group was formed in 1989 to represent X users in Europe.
It holds technical conferences at regular intervals. The EXUG also publishes
a regular newsletter which is distributed free of charge to members.  The
EXUG also runs a email mailing list for members which is frequently used to
address issues of European interest in X. Info:  Tel: +44 (0) 954 789095;
Fax: +44 (0) 954 781797; Email: info@exug.demon.co.uk

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Subject:   6)!  What related FAQs are available?

This is the general comp.windows.x FAQ.

Liam R. E. Quin (lee@sq.sq.com) posts a FAQ on Open Look to
comp.windows.open-look.

Ken Sall (ksall@cen.com) posts a FAQ on Motif to comp.windows.x.motif.  

Peter Ware (ware@cis.ohio-state.edu) posts a FAQ for
comp.windows.x.intrinsics; it is on ftp.x.org in contrib/FAQ-Xt.

Art Mulder (art@cs.ualberta.ca) posts to comp.windows.x a FAQ on maximizing
the performance of X.

Steve Kotsopoulos (steve@ecf.toronto.edu) posts to comp.windows.x a FAQ about
using X on Intel-based Unix systems.

Justin Kibell (jck@citri.edu.au) posts to comp.windows.x a FAQ on games for
X.

Luis Fernandes (elf@ee.ryerson.ca) posts to comp.windows.x.apps a FAQ on X
applications.

John Cwikla (cwikla@wri.com) posts to comp.windows.x.intrinsics a FAQ on
available widgets. See also http://www.wri.com/~cwikla/widget.html.

Wade Guthrie (wade@nb.rockwell.com) posts to comp.windows.misc a FAQ which
includes information on platform-independent GUI (PIGUI) development kits.

Pete Phillips (pete@smtl.demon.co.uk) posts to comp.sources.wanted a FAQ on
project-management programs.

Wade Guthrie (wade@nb.rockwell.com) posts to comp.windows.misc a FAQ on on
platform-independent GUI toolkits (PIGUI).

The FAQ in alt.binaries.pictures contains information on viewing images with
X and on massaging image formats.

The FAQ in comp.mail.mh (gatewayed to MH-users@ics.uci.edu) includes a
section on xmh.

The FAQ in comp.lang.lisp contains information on several interface tools and
toolkits.

The FAQ for the Andrew User Interface System is available for ftp from
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.232.154).

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Subject:   7)  How do I ask a net-question so as to maximize helpful responses?

When asking for help on the net or X mailing lists, be sure to include all
information about your setup and what you are doing.  The more specific you
are, the more likely someone will spot an error in what you are doing.
Without all the details, people who want to help you often have to guess --
if they are able to respond at all.

Always mention what version of X you are using and where you got it from. If
your server came from a different source as the rest of your X system, give
details of that, too.  Give the machine type, operating system, and O/S
version for both the client and server machine.  It may also be appropriate
to mention the window manager, compiler, and display hardware type you are
using.

Then tell exactly what you are doing, exactly what happens, and what you
expected/wanted to happen.  If it is a command that fails, include the exact
transcript of your session in the message.  If a program you wrote doesn't
work the way you expect, include as little of the source necessary (just a
small test case, please!) for readers to reproduce the problem.

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Subject:   8)  What publications discussing X are available?

The trade magazines (Unix World, Unix Review, etc.) are publishing more
articles on X.  Two X-specific publications include:

- O'Reilly and Associates publishes "The X Resource: A Practical Journal of
the X Window System" (103 Morris St. #A, Sebastapol, CA 95472).  Editorial
information: Paula Ferguson (paula@ora.com).

- The X Journal is started bi-monthly publication September 1991 on a variety
of X topics. Subscription information: The X Journal, Subscriber Services,
Dept XXX, P.O. Box 3000, Denville, NJ 07834, USA. Editorial information:
editors%topgun@uunet.uu.net, editors@unx.com.

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Subject:   9)  What are these common abbreviations/acronyms?

Xt: The X Toolkit Intrinsics is a library layered on Xlib which provides the
functionality from which the widget sets are built. An "Xt-based" program is
an application which uses one of those widget sets and which uses Intrinsics
mechanisms to manipulate the widgets.

Xmu: The Xmu library is a collection of Miscellaneous Utility functions
useful in building various applications and widgets.

Xaw: The Athena Widget Set is the Consortium-implemented sample widget set
distributed with X11 source.

Xm: The OSF/Motif widget set from the Open Software Foundation; binary kits
are available from many hardware vendors.

Xhp (Xw): The Hewlett-Packard Widget Set was originally based on R2++, but
several sets of patches exist which bring it up to R3, as it is distributed
on the X11R4 tapes. Supplemental patches are available to use it with R4/R5.

CLX: The Common Lisp X Interface is a Common Lisp equivalent to Xlib.

XDMCP: The X Display Manager Protocol provides a uniform mechanism for a
display such as an X terminal to request login service from a remote host.

XLFD: The X Logical Font Description Conventions describes a standard logical
font description and conventions to be used by clients so that they can query
and access those resources.

RTFM: Common expert-speak meaning "please locate and consult the relevant
documentation -- Read the Forgotten Manual".

UTSL: A common expression meaning "take advantage of the fact that you aren't
limited by a binary license -- Use The Source, Luke".

API: Application-Programmer Interface. The function calls, etc., in a
programming library.

BDF: Bitmap Distribution Format; a human-readable format for uncompiled X
fonts.

GUI: graphical user interface.  

UIL: the User Interface Language, part of OSF/Motif which lets programmers
specify a widget hierarchy in a simple text "outline" form

WCL: the Widget Creation Language, a package which extends the understanding
of the Xt resource format such that a widget hierarchy and actions on the
widgets can be specified through the resources file

UIMS: User Interface Management System

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Subject:  10)  What is the ICCCM? (How do I write X-friendly applications?)

	The Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual is one of the
official X Consortium standards documents that define the X environment. It
describes the conventions that clients must observe to coexist peacefully
with other clients sharing the same server.  If you are writing X clients,
you need to read and understand the ICCCM, in particular the sections
discussing the selection mechanism and the interaction between your client
and the window manager.

	Alternate definition: the ICCCM is generally the M in "RTFM" and is
the most-important of the least-read X documents.

Get the ICCCM from these sources:

	- Version 2.0 of the ICCCM is an X Consortium standard as of R6.  See
xc/doc/specs/ICCCM in the R6 distribution.

Older versions include: 

	- as part of the R5 and R4 distribution 
	- in the later editions of the Scheifler/Gettys "X Window System" book 
	- as an appendix in the new version of O'Reilly's Volume 0, "X
Protocol Reference Manual." A version in old copies of ORA Volume 1 is
obsolete.  The version in the Digital Press book is much more readable,
thanks to the efforts of Digital Press's editors to improve the English and
the presentation.  [from David Rosenthal, 10/90]

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Subject:  11)  What is the X Consortium, and how do I join?

	The X Consortium was formed in January of 1988 to further the
development of the X Window System and has as its major goal the promotion of
cooperation within the computer industry in the creation of standard software
interfaces at all layers in the X Window System environment. MIT for many
years provided the vendor-neutral architectural and administrative leadership
required to make the organization work. The X Consortium is now an independent
consortium.

	Most of the Consortium's activities take place via electronic mail,
with meetings when required.  As designs and specifications take shape,
interest groups are formed from experts in the participating organizations.
Typically a small multi-organization architecture team leads the design, with
others acting as close observers and reviewers.  Once a complete
specification is produced, it may be submitted for formal technical review by
the Consortium as a proposed standard.  The standards process typically
includes public review (outside the Consortium) and a demonstration of proof
of concept.

	Your involvement in the public review process or as a member of the
Consortium is welcomed. Membership in the Consortium open to any
organization; there are several membership categories.  Write to Bob
Scheifler, President, X Consortium, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02142-1301, or send a message to membership@x.org, or look in
/pub/DOCS/XConsortium on ftp.x.org, or use the URL 
http://www.x.org/ftp/pub/DOCS/XConsortium.

[2/90; 9/93; 12/93; 5/94]

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Subject:  12)  Just what are OPEN LOOK and Motif?

	OPEN LOOK and Motif are two graphical user interfaces (GUIs). OPEN
LOOK was developed by Sun with help from AT&T and many industry reviewers;
Motif was developed by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) with input from many
OSF members.

	OPEN LOOK is primarily a user-interface specification and style-guide;
there are several toolkits which can be used to produce OPEN LOOK
applications.  Motif includes an API specification; the only sanctioned Motif
toolkit is the one from OSF. However, there are other toolkits which can be
used to produce programs which look and behave like OSF/Motif; one of these,
ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) OI, is a "virtual toolkit" which provides
objects in the style of OPEN LOOK and Motif, at the user's choice.

	OPEN LOOK GUI is also the name of a product from AT&T, comprising
their OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit and a variety of applications.

[Thanks to Ian Darwin, ian@sq.com, 5/91]

	With the recent COSE announcement it appears that Sun will be phasing
out support for OPEN LOOK in favor of Motif.

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Subject:  13)  What is "low-bandwidth X" (LBX)? XRemote? PPP? SLIP? CSLIP?

The one-line summary of LBX is:
	LBX  =  "XRemote"  +  reply/event/error compaction  +  caching

There are several options for using X over serial lines:

SLIP - Serial Line IP; this is both a mechanism and a protocol for sending IP
packets over point-to-point serial links. It has been around for several
years, and implementations are available for many of the major TCP/IP
implementations.  Most X Terminal vendors supply this as a checkoff item,
although nobody really ever uses it since it is horribly slow.  The TCP/IP
headers add 40 bytes per packet and the TCP/IP encoding of the X protocol is
rather verbose (rightfully so; it is optimized for packing and unpacking over
high-speed links).

CSLIP - Compressed header SLIP; this is a variant of SLIP that compresses the
40 bytes of TCP/IP headers down to about 5 or 6 bytes.  It still doesn't do
anything about reencoding the X protocol.  Modems that do compression can
help, but they increase packet latency (it takes time to dribble the
uncompressed data through typical serial interfaces, plus the compression
assembly time).

PPP - Point-to-Point Protocol; this is an emerging standard for point-to-point
links over serial lines that has a more complete set of option negotiation
than SLIP.  A growing number of people see the combination of PPP for the
serial line management and CSLIP for the header compression as becoming common
for running normal TCP/IP protocols over serial lines.  Running raw X over the
wire still needs compression somewhere to make it usable.

XRemote - this is the name of both a protocol and set of products originally
developed by NCD for squeezing the X protocol over serial lines.  In addition
to using a low level transport mechanism similar to PPP/CSLIP, XRemote removes
redundancies in the X protocol by sending deltas against previous packets and
using LZW to compress the entire data stream.  This work is done by either a
pseudo-X server or "proxy" running on the host or in a terminal server.  There
are several advantages to doing compression outside the modem:
   (1)  You don't *have* to have compressing modems in there if you wouldn't
	otherwise be using them (e.g. if you were going to be directly
	connected), and 
   (2)  It reduces the I/O overhead by cutting down on the number of bytes 
	that have to cross the serial interface, and 
   (3)  In addition to the effects of #2, it reduces the latency in delivering
	packets by not requiring the modem to buffer up the data waiting for
	blocks to compress.

LBX - Low Bandwidth X; this is an X Consortium project that is working on a
standard for this area.  It is being chaired by NCD and Xerox and is using
NCD's XRemote protocol as a stepping stone in developing the new protocol.
LBX will go beyond XRemote by adding proxy caching of commonly-used
information (e.g. connection setup data, large window properties, font
metrics, keymaps, etc.) and a more efficient encoding of the X protocol. The
hope is to have a Standard ready for public review in the first half of next
year and a sample implementation available in R6.

Additional technical information about how XRemote works and a few notes on
how LBX might be different are available via anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org in
contrib/ in the following files:
	XRemote-slides.ps               slides describing XRemote
	XRemote-LBX-diffs.ps            more slides describing some of LBX

[information provided by Jim Fulton, jim@ncd.com; 7/92]

	There is also a set of slides on ftp.x.org from Jim Fulton's talk at
the 7th X Technical Conference.

	LBX is designated as a work in progress in R6.  See
workInProgress/README and workInProgress/lbx/README in the R6 distribution
for more information.

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Subject:  14)  TOPIC: USING X IN DAY-TO-DAY LIFE
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Subject:  15)! What are all these window managers? (Where can I get a "virtual" wm?)

The window manager in X is just another client -- it is not part of the X
window system, although it enjoys special privileges -- and so there is no
single window manager; instead, there are many, which support different ways
for the user to interact with windows and different styles of window layout,
decoration, and keyboard and colormap focus. In approximate chronological
order (generally, the more recent ones conformant more with the ICCCM):

wm: this simple title-bar window manager was phased out in R2 or R3

uwm: the Universal Window Manager is still popular for its speed, although it
is very outdated. Moved to contrib/ on the R4 tape.

twm (old): Tom's Window Manager was among the first non-Consortium window
managers and offered the user a great deal of customization options in a
re-parenting window manager.

awm: the Ardent Window Manager was for a while a hotbed for hackers and
offered some features (dynamic menus) not found on more current window
managers

rtl: Siemen's window manager tiles windows so that they don't overlap and
resizes the window with the focus to its preferred size.

dxwm: Digital's dxwm is part of the DECwindows offering

hpwm: HP's window manager offers a 3D look; it is a precursor of mwm

mwm: the Motif window manager is part of the OSF/Motif toolkit

tekwm: Tektronix's window manager offering

olwm (Sun): olwm implements the OPEN LOOK GUI and some of the Style Guide
functionality

olwm (AT&T): ditto

gwm: Bull's Generic Window Manager emulates others with a built-in Lisp
interpreter. Version 1.7h (10/91) is on the R5 contrib tape; 1.7o is on
avahi.inria.fr and ftp.x.org. [9/93]

m_swm: the Sigma window manager is on the R4 tape

pswm: Sun's PostScript-based pswm is part of the OpenWindows release

swm: Solbourne's swm is based on the OI toolkit and offers multiple GUI
support and also a panning virtual window; configuration information comes
from the resources file. Sources are on ftp.x.org in contrib/swm.tar.Z; they
require OI binaries.

twm (new): the new Tab Window Manager from the R4 tape is a reworked twm and
is the basis for several derivatives, including the one on later X releases

vtwm: vtwm offers some of the virtual-desktop features of swm, with a
single-root window implementation.  A new version, vtwm-5.3, is based on the
R5 twm and is available from ftp.x.org. [1/94]

tvtwm: Tom's Virtual Tab Window Manager is also based on the Tab Window
Manager and provides a virtual desktop modeled on the virtual-root window of
swm. It is available on ftp.x.org and mirroring archive servers.

olvwm: the vtwm-style virtual-desktop added to Sun's olwm. It is available on
archive servers; version 4.1 [2/94] is on ftp.x.org.

mvwm: the vtwm-style virtual-desktop added to OSF's mwm. A beta version is
floating around (most recently from suresh@unipalm.co.uk) but requires a
source license to OSF/Motif 1.1.3 [3/92].

NCDwm: the window manager local to NCD terminals offers an mwm look

XDSwm: the window manager local to Visual Technology's terminals is simple
but full-featured.

ctwm: Claude Lecommandeur's (lecom@sic.epfl.ch) modification of the R5 twm
offers 32 virtual screens in the fashion of HP vuewm and also offers the
window overview used in vtwm and tvtwm. Version 3.1 [2/94] source is on
ftp.x.org.

vuewm: HP's MWM-based window manager offers configurable workspaces.  SAIC
offers a version of this VUE environment.

4Dwm: SGI's enhanced MWM

piewm: this version of tvtwm offers pie menus

pmwm: IXI's Panorama version of MWM offers olvwm-like features.  Info: +44
223 236 555, +1 408 427 7700; mmoore@x.co.uk or michaela@x.co.uk or
laurie@ixi.com.

fvwm: this virtual window manager has been rewritten from scratch and is very
light on system resources (between half and two-thirds the memory usage of
twm, on which it was based). fvwm offers most of the features others provide,
plus additional features. Source is available from sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/X11/window-managers/; fvwm-1.22f-source.tar.z was current in
7/94. Information: http://neutrino.nuc.berkeley.edu/neutronics/todd/fvwm.html.

mwm 2.0: the 2.0 version of mwm, not generally released yet, includes support
for multiple workspaces.

Also of possible use is vr, by Richard Mauri (rmauri@netcom.com), on
ftp.x.org and ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
(pub/comp/X11/contrib/clients/vr/vr-1.01.tar.Z); Vr is a workspace manager
intended to be window-manager-independent.

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Subject:  16)  Why does my X session exit when I kill my window manager (sic)?

	It needn't.  What is probably happening is that you are running your
window manager as the last job in your .xsession or .xinitrc file; your X
session runs only as long as the last job is running, and so killing your
window manager is equivalent to logging out. Instead, run the window manager
in the background, and as the last job instead invoke something safe like:
		exec xterm -name Login -rv -iconic
or any special client of your devising which exits on some user action.  Your
X session will continue until you explicitly logout of this window, whether or
not you kill or restart your window manager.
	Alternatively, there is a chance that you are using OpenLook, which by
default kills all clients on logging out. Change your Exit menu choice from
EXIT to WMEXIT to correct this behavior.

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Subject:  17)  Can I save the state of my X session, like toolplaces does?

	Although no known window manager directly supports such a feature
(olvwm and swm may come close) -- which may be equivalent to writing out a
.xinitrc or .xsession file naming the geometry and WM_COMMAND of each
application  -- there is a contributed application which does much of what
you are looking for, although it is not as complete as the SunView program
toolplaces.  Look for the application "xplaces" on an archive-server near
you.  There are several versions of this program floating around; look for a
recent vintage.  [10/90]
	Some new pseudo session-managers such as HP's vuewm provide for the
saving of sessions including information on the geometry of currently-running
applications and the resource database.  [Bjxrn Stabell
(bjoerns@staff.cs.uit.no); 3/93.]

       In Release 6 a new session management protocol was defined, called
XSMP (see doc/specs/SM), for telling applications when to save their internal
state and for managing user dialog during the save.  R6 contains a very
simple session manager that exercises this protocol in the workInProgress
directory; look for xsm.  R6 also added a new shell widget class to Xt to
make it easier to write applications that react to messages from a session
manager.  The window managers still have to do the work to save the window
positions. [Dave Wiggins (dpw@x.org); 5/94.]

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Subject:  18)  How do I use another window manager with DEC's session manager?

	DEC's session manager will start dxwm up by default. To override this,
add to your .Xdefaults file something like this line, naming the full pathname:
	sm.windowManagerName:   /wherever/usr/bin/X11/your_favorite_wm

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Subject:  19)  How do I change the keyboard auto-repeat rate?

	You can turn auto-repeat on or off by using "xset r on|off". 

	The base X11 protocol, doesn't provide for varying the auto-repeat
rate, which is a capability not supported by all systems.
	Some pre-R6 servers may provide command-line flags to set the rate at
start-up time. If you have control over server start-up (see the man pages
for xinit and xdm), you can invoke the server with the chosen settings; for
example, you can start the R5 Xsun sample server with the options "-ar1 350
-ar2 30" to reduce the sensitivity of the keyboard.

	The R6 X Keyboard Extension provides a vendor-independent way to
control repeat delay and rate.

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Subject:  20)  How do I remap the keys on my keyboard to produce a string?

	There is no method of arranging for a particular string to be produced
when you press a particular key. The xmodmap client, which is useful for
moving your CTRL and ESC keys to useful places, just rearranges keys and does
not do "macro expansion."
	Some (few) clients, including xterm and several X-based editors,
accept a translation resource such as:
	xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \
		<Key>F1: string("setenv DISPLAY unix:0")
which permits the shorthand F1 to be pressed to reset the display locally
within an xterm; it takes effect for new xterm clients. To include control
characters in the string, use \nnn, where nnn is the octal encoding of the
control character you want to include.
	Window managers, which could provide this facility, do not yet; nor
has a special "remapper" client been made available.

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David B. Lewis 					faq%craft@uunet.uu.net

		"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday 


-- 
David B. Lewis			Temporarily at but not speaking for ICS
day: dbl@ics.com		evening: dbl%craft@uunet.uu.net

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Archive-name: x-faq/part2
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

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Subject:  21)! How do I make a screendump or print my application (including menus)?

The xwd client in the X11 distributions can be used to select a window or the
background. It produces an XWD-format file of the image of that window.  The
file can be post-processed into something useful or printed with the xpr
client and your local printing mechanism. To print a screendump including a
menu or other object which has grabbed the pointer, you can use this
command:

		csh% sleep 10; xwd -root > output.xwd &

and then spend 10 seconds or so setting up your screen; the entire current
display will be saved into the file output.xwd. Note that xwd also has an
undocumented (before R5) -id flag for specifying the window id on the
command-line. [There are also unofficial patches on ftp.x.org to xwd for
specifying the delay and the portion of the screen to capture.]

Two publicly-available programs which allow interactive definition of
arbitrary portions of the display and built-in delays are xsnap and xgrabsc.

xgrabsc is a free screendump program that provides multiple selection styles
and several output formats.  Selection styles include xwd-style point and
click, dragging a rectangle over an arbitrary portion of the screen, timed
snapshots for menu capturing, and keyboard-based selection.  Output formats
are xwd, XPM (v1 and 2), bitmap, puzzle, and monochrome, greyscale, and color
Postscript.  Postscript output can be in ready-to-print true-scale form or
encapsulated for inclusion in Frame, xfig, and other programs that accept EPS
graphics.  There are several versions of xgrabsc; version 2.3, available on
ftp.x.org [9/93] is the most recent.  xgrab, part of the package, is an
interactive front-end to xgrabsc.

xwpick (formerly xpick) is available on ftp.x.org as xwpick-2.10.tar.Z; it
creates Level 2 color PostScript dumps of X screens and can generate GIF, PICT,
and other formats. xwpick runs under VMS and Unix systems.

xsnap includes some asnap features and supersedes it; it also renders XPM
output [version unknown]. It is available on ftp.x.org or avahi.inria.fr; see
xsnap-pl2.tar.Z.

A screen-dump and merge/edit program combining features of xwd and xpr is
available from vernam.cs.uwm.edu as xdump1.0.tar.Z.  Information:
soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu.

xprint, by Alberto Accomazzi (alberto@cfa.harvard.edu) is available from
cfa0.harvard.edu (128.103.40.1) as /pub/wipl/xprint.export-2.1.tar.Z.  The
package allows users to create encapsulated color PostScript files which will
print on any PostScript Level-1 compliant printer (black and white or
color).

To post-process the xwd output of some of these tools, you can use xpr, which
is part of the X11 distribution (moved to contrib in R6). Also on several
archives are xwd2ps and XtoPS, which produce Encapsulated PostScript with
trimmings suitable for use in presentations (see
ftp.x.org:contrib/xwd2ps.tar.Z and contrib/ImageMagick2.3.7.tar.Z). Also
useful is the PBMPLUS/Netpbm package on many archive servers; and the Xim
package contains Level 2 color PostScript output.

The XV program can grab a portion of the X display, manipulate it, and save
it in one of the available formats. ImageMagick has similar capabilities.

Also:

Bristol Technology (info@bristol.com, 203-438-6969) offers Xprinter 2.0, an
Xlib API for PostScript and PCL printers; a demo is on ftp.uu.net in
vendor/Bristol/Xprinter.

ColorSoft 9619-459-8500) offers OPENprint package includes a screen- capture
facility, image-processing, and support for PostScript and non-PostScript
printers.

Some vendors' implementations of X (e.g. DECWindows and OpenWindows) include
session managers or other desktop programs which include "print portion of
screen" or "take a snapshot" options. Some platforms also have tools which
can be used to grab the frame-buffer directly; the Sun systems, for example,
have a 'screendump' program which produces a Sun raster file.  Some X
terminals have local screen-dump utilities to write PostScript to a local
serial printer.

Some vendors' implementations of lpr (e.g. Sony) include direct support for
printing xwd files, but you'll typically need some other package to massage
the output into a useful format which you can get to the printer.

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Subject:  22)  How do I make a color PostScript screendump of the X display?

If you need color PostScript in particular, you can 

	- grab the screen-image using a program which can produce color 
PostScript, such as xgrabsc, xprint, xwpick, and xv

	- grab the screen-image using xwd and post-process xwd into color PS.

You can do this using xwd2ps or the XtoPS program from the ImageMagick
distribution. The PBMPLUS/Netpbm package is also good for this, as is the Xim
package.

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Subject:  23)  How do I make a screendump including the X cursor?

This can't be done unless the X server has been extended. Consider instead a
system-dependent mechanism for, e.g.,  capturing the frame-buffer.

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Subject:  24)  How do I convert or view Mac/TIFF/GIF/Sun/PICT/img/FAX images in X?

The likeliest program is an incarnation of Jef Poskanzer's useful++ Portable
Bitmap Toolkit, which includes a number of programs for converting among
various image formats. It includes support for many types of bitmaps,
gray-scale images, and full-color images. PBMPLUS has been updated recently;
the most recent version [12/91] is on ftp.x.org in
contrib/pbmplus10dec91.tar.Z.

Netpbm is based on the PBMPLUS 10dec91 release, with many additions and
improvements. It is intended to be portable to many platforms while allowing
for conversion of images between a variety of formats. The latest sources are
on several sites, including wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) and
peipa.essex.ac.uk (155.245.115.161). Contact oliver@fysik4.kth.se to be added
to the netpbm mailing list.

Another tool is San Diego Supercomputing Center's IMtools ('imconv' in
particular), which packages the functionality of PBM into a single binary.
It's available anonymous ftp from sdsc.edu (132.249.20.22).

Useful for viewing and converting some image-formats is Jim Frost's
xloadimage; the most recent [11/93] is on ftp.x.org in
contrib/xloadimage.4.1.tar.Z.  Graeme Gill's updates to an earlier version of
xloadimage are also on ftp.x.org; see xli.README and xli.tar.Z.uu; version
1.15 was released 7/93.

xv (X Image Viewer), written by bradley@cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley), can
read and display pictures in Sun Raster, PGM, PBM, PPM, X11 bitmap, TIFF, GIF
and JPEG. It can manipulate on the images: adjust, color, intensity,
contrast, aspect ratio, crop). It can save images in all of the
aforementioned formats plus PostScript. It can grab a portion of the X
display, manipulate on it, and save it in one of the available formats. The
program was updated 5/92; see the file contrib/xv-2.21.tar.Z on ftp.x.org.
Version 3.00 [5/93] is distributed as shareware.

The Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation, by Michael Mauldin (mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu).
Conversion and manipulation package, similar to PBMPLUS.  Version 1.0
available via FTP as nl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z,
uunet.uu.net:pub/fbm.tar.Z, and ucsd.edu:graphics/fbm.tar.Z.

The Img Software Set, by Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>, reads and
writes its own image format, displays on an X11 screen, and does some image
manipulations.  Version 1.3 is available via FTP on ftp.x.org as
contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z, along with large collection of color images.

The Utah RLE Toolkit is a conversion and manipulation package similar to
PBMPLUS.  Available via FTP as cs.utah.edu:pub/urt-*,
weedeater.math.yale.edu:pub/urt-*, and freebie.engin.umich.edu:pub/urt-*.

Xim, The X Image Manipulator, by Philip Thompson, does essential interactive
displaying, editing, filtering, and converting of images. There is a version
in the X11R4 contrib area; but a more recent version (using R4 and Motif 1.1)
is available from gis.mit.edu (18.80.1.118). Xim reads/writes gif, xwd, xbm,
tiff, rle, xim, (writes level 2 eps) and other formats and also has a library
and command-line utilities for building your own applications.

ImageMagick by cristy@dupont.com is an X11 package for display and
interactive manipulation of images.  Includes tools for image conversion,
annotation, compositing, animation, and creating montages.  ImageMagick can
read and write many of the more popular image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNM,
Postscript, ...).  Available via FTP from ftp.x.org as
contrib/ImageMagick2.3.6.tar.Z. [1/94]

xtiff is a tool for viewing a TIFF file in an X window.  It was written to
handle as many different kinds of TIFF files as possible while remaining
simple, portable and efficient.  xtiff illustrates some common problems with
building pixmaps and using different visual classes.  It is distributed as
part of Sam Leffler's libtiff package and it is also available on ftp.x.org
and comp.sources.x.  [dbs@decwrl.dec.com,10/90] xtiff 2.0 was announced in
4/91; it includes Xlib and Xt versions.

A version of Lee Iverson's (leei@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) image-viewing tool is
available as contrib/vimage-0.9.3.tar.Z on ftp.x.org. The package also
includes an ImageViewPort widget and a FileDialog widget.  [12/91;5/92]

The Andrew User Interface System (version 5.2 and later) provides an image
inset which can view many image formats.  Like all Andrew insets, an image
can be incorporated in a a document or sent in email via the MIME standard.
The following formats can be read:  Sunraster, GIF, Xbitmap,  TIFF, Xpixmap,
JPEG, PBM, XWD.

The LUG (Libreria de Utilidades Graficas) is a library of subroutines
offering several routines for the manipulation of images in several different
formats. The distribution includes viewers for several different platforms.
The distribution is on telva.ccu.uniovi.es (156.35.31.31):
/uniovi/mathdept/src/liblug-1.0.1.tar.gz.

The X Image Extension (XIE), an X Consortium standard in R6, provides
facilities for transmitting displaying fax (G3, G4), TIFF, and JPEG images.

[some material from Larry Carroll (larryc@poe.jpl.nasa.gov), 5/91]

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Subject:  25)  Where can I get an X-based 3-D object viewer?

xmgf by Paul Hoad (P.Hoad@ee.surrey.ac.uk) is an interactive tool for viewing
2D and 3D objects typically in gf/OFF/NFF/IGRIP/MINICAD/SLA/DXF format
Sources are on ftp.x.org.  Version 1.9.1 became available 12/93.

x3d is a V.Fast 3D Object viewer for X it needs no special hardware or or
widget libraries other that X and is optimized for speed.

XGobi can be used to to view such data.
	
VOGLE can be used to to view such data.
 
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Subject:  26)  How can I change the titlebar of my xterm window?

	The solution involves sending an escape sequence to xterm which will
cause it to update the property which the window manager relies upon for the
string which appears in the window titlebar.
	A solution is as easy as typing this in an xterm running a shell:
		echo "ESC]2;TEXT^G"
where ESC is the escape key, TEXT is the string you wish to have displayed,
and ^G is a Control-G (the BEL character). Note that the semi-colon is
demanded by more recent versions of xterm. (Some shells and editors need an
escape character, typically ^V, before accepting control characters literally.)

	Here is a more complicated csh alias which changes the titlebar to the
current working directory when you change directories:
		alias newcd 'cd \!*; echo -n ESC]2\;$cwd^G'
(for other shells e.g. ksh you will need to write a function for cd to print
this value).

	The digit '2' in these strings indicates to xterm that it should
change only the title of the window; to change both the title and the name
used in the icon, use the digit '0' instead, and use '1' to change only the
icon name.

	Note: another way to do this, which prevents an incorrect display of
the local directory if a modified `cd` is used in a subshell, is to wrap the
escape sequences into the PS1 prompt itself.

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Subject:  27)  Where can I find the xterm control sequences?

The best source of such information is in your R5/R6 sources in the file
ctlseqs.ms (R6: xc/doc/specs/xterm/ctlseqs.ms); a PostScript version is in
your R5 sources in mit/hardcopy/clients/ctlseqs.PS.Z and your R6 sources in
xc/doc/hardcopy/xterm/ctlseqs.PS.Z.

Both editions of O'Reilly's Volume 3, the X User's Guide, include an R5
version of the control sequences.

Other good sources of information include the R4 version of that document and
also the file in the R4 sources called mit/clients/xterm/ctlseq2.txt, a
compilation put together by Skip Montanaro (GE CR&D) listing the VT100
sequences. It dates from R3 but is fairly accurate.  A hardcopy version was
published in the December 1989 XNextEvent (the XUG newsletter).

In a pinch, a VT100 manual will do.

[last updated 10/91]

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Subject:  28)  How can I use characters above ASCII 127 in xterm ?

	In order to use special characters such as the o-umlaut, you need to
"stty pass8" (you may need "stty -parenb -istrip cs8" on strictly-POSIX
systems) but also to use a charcell ISO8859 font, such as
	XTerm*font:     -*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1
	XTerm*boldfont: -*-*-bold-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 [The
family is intentionally unspecified in this example.]

In addition, you may want to set this in your shell:
	setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1

	For a given character above 127, you can determine the key to use with
the Alt modifier by finding the equivalent character below 127 (try using `man
ascii`). For example, o-umlaut (v) is Alt-v and the section character (') is
Alt-'.

[thanks to Greg Holmberg (greg%thirdi@uunet.uu.net) and Stephen Gildea
(gildea@x.org); 6/92]

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Subject:  29)  Why are my xterm menus so small (sic) ?

	You are probably setting the geometry small accidentally. If you give
a resource specification like this:
		xterm*geometry: 80x24
then you are asking for all widgets under xterm to have their geometry set to
80x24. For the main window, this is OK, as it uses characters for its size.
But its popup menus don't; they are in pixels and show up small. To set only
the terminal widget to have the specified geometry, name it explicitly:
		xterm*VT100.geometry: 80x24

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Subject:  30)  How can I print the current X selection?

	You could paste it into an xterm after executing the lpr command.
However, a program by Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) specifically for
manipulating the selection will help; e.g.
	% xselection PRIMARY | lpr 
finds the primary selection and prints it.
	This command can be placed in a window-manager menu or in
shell-scripts.  xselection also permits the setting of the selection and other
properties. A version is on ftp.x.org.
	Also available is ria.ccs.uwo.ca:pub/xget_selection.tar.Z, which can
be adapted to do this.

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Subject:  31)  How does Xt use environment variables in loading resources?

	You can use several environment variables to control how resources are
loaded for your Xt-based programs -- XFILESEARCHPATH, XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, and
XAPPLRESDIR.  These environment variables control where Xt looks for
application-defaults files as an application is initializing.  Xt loads at
most one app-defaults file from the path defined in XFILESEARCHPATH and
another from the path defined in XUSERFILESEARCHPATH.

	XAPPLRESDIR existed in R3 and before.  As of R4, the Xt developers
added the more sophisticated *SEARCHPATH mechanism, but left XAPPLRESDIR in
place to avoid breaking existing software.

	Set XFILESEARCHPATH if software is installed on your system in such a
way that app-defaults files appear in several different directory
hierarchies.  Suppose, for example, that you are running Sun's Open Windows,
and you also have some R4 X applications installed in
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. You could set a value like this for
XFILESEARCHPATH, and it would cause Xt to look up app-defaults files in both
/usr/lib/X11 and /usr/openwin/lib (or wherever your OPENWINHOME is located):
	setenv XFILESEARCHPATH /usr/lib/X11/%T/%N:$OPENWINHOME/lib/%T/%N

The value of this environment variable is a colon-separated list of
pathnames.  The pathnames contain replacement characters as follows (see
XtResolvePathname()):

	%N      The value of the filename parameter, or the
		application's class name.  
	%T      The value of the file "type".  In this case, the
		literal string "app-defaults" 
	%C      customization resource (R5/R6 only) 
	%D	site default value for XFILESEARCHPATH (R6 only)
	%S      Suffix.  None for app-defaults.  
	%L      Language, locale, and codeset (e.g. "ja_JP.EUC") 
	%l      Language part of %L (e.g. "ja") 
	%t      The territory part of the display's language string 
	%c      The codeset part of the display's language string

	Let's take apart the example.  Suppose the application's class name is
"Myterm". Also, suppose Open Windows is installed in /usr/openwin.
(Notice the example omits locale-specific lookup.)
	/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N        means /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Myterm
	$OPENWINHOME/lib/%T/%N    means /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/Myterm

	As the application initializes, Xt tries to open both of the above
app-defaults files, in the order shown.  As soon as it finds one, it reads it
and uses it, and stops looking for others.  The effect of this path is to
search first in /usr/lib/X11, then in /usr/openwin.

	Let's consider another example. This time, let's set
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH so it looks for the file Myterm.ad in the current working
directory, then for Myterm in the directory ~/app-defaults.
	setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ./%N.ad:$HOME/app-defaults/%N

	The first path in the list expands to ./Myterm.ad.  The second expands
to $HOME/app-defaults/Myterm.  This is a convenient setting for debugging
because it follows the Imake convention of naming the app-defaults file
Myterm.ad in the application's source directory, so you can run the
application from the directory in which you are working and still have the
resources loaded properly.  NOTE: when looking for app-default files with
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, for some bizarre reason, neither the type nor file suffix
is defined so %T and %S are useless.

	With R5 and R6, there's another twist.  You may specify a customization
resource value.  For example, you might run the "myterm" application like
this:
	myterm -xrm "*customization: -color"

	If one of your pathname specifications had the value
"/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%C" then the expanded pathname would be
"/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Myterm-color" because the %C substitution character
takes on the value of the customization resource.

	The default XFILESEARCHPATH, compiled into Xt, is:
		/usr/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N%C:\  (R5) 
		/usr/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N%C:\  (R5)
		/usr/lib/X11/%T/%N%C:\     (R5) 
		/usr/lib/X11/%L/%T/%N:\
		/usr/lib/X11/%l/%T/%N:\ /usr/lib/X11/%T/%N

	(Note: some sites replace /usr/lib/X11 with a ProjectRoot in this
batch of default settings.)

	The default XUSERFILESEARCHPATH, also compiled into Xt, is
		<root>/%L/%N%C:\  (R5) 
		<root>/%l/%N%C:\  (R5)
		<root>/%N%C:\     (R5) 
		<root>/%L/%N:\ 
		<root>/%l/%N:\
		<root>/%N:

	<root> is either the value of XAPPLRESDIR or the user's home directory
if XAPPLRESDIR is not set.  If you set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to some value other 
than the default, Xt ignores XAPPLRESDIR altogether.

	Notice that the quick and dirty way of making your application find
your app-defaults file in your current working directory is to set XAPPLRESDIR
to ".", a single dot.  In R3, all this machinery worked differently; for R3
compatibilty, many people set their XAPPLRESDIR value to "./", a dot followed
by a slash.

[Thanks to Oliver Jones (oj@world.std.com); 2/93.]

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Subject:  32)  How to I have xdm put a picture behind the log-in window?

R5/R6 users can specify the "setup" script that xdm runs by changing the
entry in the xdm-config file (usually in /usr/lib/X11/xdm) to name a
different script; the sample script distributed with the X distribution
simply runs xconsole.  See the SETUP PROGRAM section of the xdm man page in
R6 for precise details.

Pre-R5 versions of the xdm client could be spoofed by in changing xdm's xrdb
resource in the xdm-config file to run a program to change the background
before loading the resources; for example, your /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config
file may add the line
	DisplayManager.0.authorize: false 
to permit unrestricted access to the display before log-in (beware!) and also
	DisplayManager*xrdb:    /usr/lib/X11/xdm/new.xrdb 
where that file does something (for all connections) along the lines of:
	#!/bin/sh 
	#comes in with arguments: -display :0 -load /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
	/usr/bin/X11/xsetroot -display $2 -bitmap /usr/lib/X11/xdm/new.bitmap 
	/usr/bin/X11/xrdb $* 
Substitute xloadimage or xv for xsetroot, to taste.  Note that this is a
general hack that can be used to invoke a console window or any other client.

[Thanks to Jay Bourland (jayb@cauchy.stanford.edu), 9/91]

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Subject:  33)  Why isn't my PATH set when xdm runs my .xsession file?

	When xdm runs your .xsession it doesn't source your .cshrc or .login
files. You can set the path explicitly as you normally could for any SH
script; or you can place all environment-setting statements in a separate file
and source it from both the .xsession file and your shell configuration file;
or, if you set your PATH in your .cshrc file, the normal place, you can make
your .xsession have PATH set simply by making it a csh script, i.e. by starting
your .xsession file off with "#!/bin/csh".
	If this doesn't work, also try starting off with:
	#!/bin/sh # Reset path:  PATH=`csh -c 'echo $PATH'` ; export PATH

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Subject:  34)  How do I keep my $DISPLAY when I rlogin to another machine?

	There are several ways to avoid having to do a "setenv DISPLAY ..."
whenever you log in to another networked UNIX machine running X.
	A trivial solution, if your account is cross-mounted on both machines,
is to have your .xsession write your DISPLAY variable to a file, and then in
your login dot-files to check for the existence of that that file and use its
contents as your DISPLAY. [Thanks to joachim.fricker@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch.]
	One solution is to use the clients/xrsh on the R5 contrib tape.  It 
includes xrsh, a script to start an X application on remote machine, and
xrlogin, a script to start a local xterm running rlogin to a remote machine.
A more recent version is on export in xrsh-5.6.shar. [6/94]
	One solution is to use the xrlogin program from der Mouse
(mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu). You can ftp caveat-emptor versions from
ftp.cim.mcgill.ca (132.206.4.7) in pub/people/mouse/X/xrlogin/.  The program
packages up $TERM and $DISPLAY into a single string, which is stuffed into
$TERM.  rlogin then propagates $TERM normally; your .cshrc on the remote
machine should contain
		eval `xrlogind`
where xrlogind is a program that checks $TERM and if it is of the special 
format it recognizes, unpacks it and spits out setenv and unsetenv commands to 
recreate the environment variables. [11/90]

	In addition, if all you need to do is start a remote X process on 
another host, and you find
		rsh <HOST> -n /usr/bin/X11/xterm -display $DISPLAY 
too simple (DISPLAY must have your real hostname), then this version of xrsh 
can be used to start up remote X processes. The equivalent usage would be 
		xrsh <HOST> xterm

  #! /bin/sh
  # start an X11 process on another host
  # Date: 8 Dec 88 06:29:34 GMT
  # From: Chris Torek <chris@mimsy.umd.edu>
  # rsh $host -n "setenv DISPLAY $DISPLAY; exec $@ </dev/null >&/dev/null"
  #
  # An improved version:
  # rXcmd (suggested by John Robinson, jr@bbn.com)
  #       (generalized for sh,ksh by Keith Boyer, keith@cis.ohio-state.edu)
  #
  # but they put the rcmd in ()'s which left zombies again.  This
  # script combines the best of both.
  
  case $# in
  [01])  echo "Usage: $0 host x-cmd [args...]";;
  *)
  	case $SHELL in
  	*csh*)  host="$1"; shift
  		xhost "$host" > /dev/null
  		rsh "$host" -n \
  			"setenv TERM xterm; setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0; \
  			exec $* </dev/null >& /dev/null" &
  		;;
  	*sh)
  		host="$1"; shift
  		xhost "$host" > /dev/null
  		rsh "$host" -n \
  			"TERM=xterm export TERM; \
  			DISPLAY=`hostname`:0 export DISPLAY; \
  			LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; \
  			PATH=\$PATH:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin; \
			export PATH; \
  			exec $* < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1" &
  		;;
  	esac
  	;;
  esac

You may also want to look at programs/rstart in the R6 distribution; this
remote execution protocol is intended to work in concert with session
managers.

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Subject:  35)  How can I design my own font?

	One way is to use the "bitmap" client or some other bitmap-editor
(e.g.  Sun's icon-editor tool, post-processed with pbmplus) to design the
individual characters and then to do some large amount of post-processing to
concatenate them into the BDF format. See Ollie Jones's article in the
November 91 X Journal for more information.

	The R3 contrib/ area (in fonts/utils/ and in clients/xtroff) contained
a number of useful utilities, including some to convert between BDF font
format and a simple character format which can be edited with any text
editor.

	An easier way is to use the "xfed" client to modify an existing font;
a version is on the R4 or R5 X11R5 contrib tape in contrib/clients/xfed. Xfed
was last seen on ftp.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.64.63], possibly as
file /pub/windows/X/Diverse-X11-Sourcen/xfed.tar.Z. It can produce BDF-format
fonts which can be compiled for a variety of X servers.

	IBM machines appear to have a utility "fontutil".

	The xfedor client from Group Bull permits creation of bitmaps,
cursors, XPM1 pixmaps, and fonts. Binaries for common machines are on
avahi.inria.fr in /pub; in addition, the sources (an old Xlib implementation)
have been placed [5/91] in ftp.x.org:/contrib.

	If you are a MetaFont user you can use "mftobdf" from the SeeTeX
distribution to convert PK, GF, and PXL fonts to BDF format; the distribution
is on ftp.cs.colorado.edu and on ftp.x.org.
	The GNU package fontutils-0.4.tar.Z on prep.ai.mit.edu includes xbfe,
a font editor, and a number of utilities for massaging font formats.
	The O'Reilly X Resource issue #2 contains an article on using these
tools to modify a font.

	Fonts can be resized with Hiroto Kagotani's bdfresize; a new version
is in ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp:/X11/contrib.  bdffont in the Andrew User Interface
System (versions 5.2.2 and higher) lets you create a font or edit an existing
one.

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Subject:  36)  Why does adding a font to the server not work (sic)?

	After you have built the font using your system's font-compiler,
installed it in some directory, and run `mkfontdir` or your system's
equivalent (e.g. bldfamily for OpenWindows) in that directory, be sure to use
`xset +fp $dir` to add that full path-name to the server's font-path, *or* if
the directory is already in the path, use `xset fp rehash` so that the new
fonts in that directory are actually found; it is this last step that you're
probably leaving out. (You can also use `xset q` to make sure that that
directory is in the path.)
	Sometimes your "xset +fp $dir" command fails with a BadValue error:
		X Error of failed request:BadValue
			(integer parameter out of range for operation) 
		Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)

	This means the X server cannot find or read your font directory, or
that your directory does not look like a font directory to the server.  (The
mention of an "integer parameter" in the message is spurious.)

-- Is the font directory you're specifying readable from the SERVER's file
   system?  Remember, it's the server, not the client, which interprets your
   font directory.  Trouble in this area is especially likely when you issue
   an xset command with shell metacharacters in it (e.g. "xset +fp ~/myfonts")
   and the server is an X terminal or managed by xdm.

-- Is the directory really a font directory?  If you're running the sample X
   server (or most varieties of vendor servers) look in the directory for the
   file "fonts.dir".  If you can't find that file, run mkfontdir(1). (If you're
   running OpenWindows, look for the file "Families.list".  If you can't find
   it, run bldfamily(1).)

-- If you're in a site where some people run X11Rn servers and others run a
   proprietary server with nonstandard font formats (OpenWindows, for
   example), make sure the font directory is right for the server you're
   using.  Hint: if the directory contains .pcf and/or .snf files, it won't
   work for Open Windows.  If the directory contains .ff and/or .fb files, it
   won't work for X11Rn.

[thanks to der Mouse (mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu) and to Oliver Jones
(oj@pictel.com); 7/92 ]

Note: some systems (e.g. X11R4 on AIX) need a trailing '/' in the directory
name.

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Subject:  37)  How do I convert a ".snf" font back to ".bdf" font?

	A tool called "snftobdf 1.6" can do this; it is available as:
		ftp.x.org:contrib/snftobdf-1.6.tar.Z
		crl.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/snftobdf-1.6.tar.Z

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Subject:  38)  What is a general method of getting a font in usable format?

	der Mouse's getbdf is one solution; it connects to a server and
produces a .BDF file for any font the server is willing to let it.  It can be
used as an anything-to-BDF converter, but requires access to a server that can
understand the font file, thus is both more and less powerful than other tools
such as snftobdf. getbdf is on 132.206.78.1 in X/getbdf.c or available via mail
from mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU. [5/91]
	In addition, the R5/R6 program "fstobdf" can produce bdf for any font
that the R5 server has access to.

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Subject:  39)  How do I use DECwindows fonts on my non-DECwindows server?

	The DECwindows fonts typically don't exist on a non-DEC installation,
but rewrite rules can be used to alias fonts used by DECwindows applications
to standard X fonts of similar characteristics and size. Pick up the file
contrib/DECwindows_on_X11R4_font.aliases from ftp.x.org; this file is for a
sample R4 server.  It can also serve as a starting point for creating a
similar aliases file for the Open Windows server or other servers which do not
use the X Consortium's font scheme.

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Subject:  40)  How do I get a font name from the structure?

You can't, although you can build up the font properties to rebuild a
description of the font in XLFD format, which should be sufficient.

This routine is derived from source provided by John L. Cwikla 
(cwikla@wri.com).

#include <X11/Xlib.h>

#include <stdio.h>

/* Stolen from mit/fonts/lib/font/bitmap/bitscale.c */

enum scaleType
{
    atom, pixel_size, point_size,
    resolution, resolution_x, resolution_y, average_width,
    scaledX, scaledY, unscaled, scaledXoverY, uncomputed,
};

typedef struct _fontProp
{
    char       *name;
    Atom        atom;
    enum scaleType type;
    char found;
} fontProp;

static fontProp fontNamePropTable[] = 
{
	{ "FOUNDRY", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "FAMILY_NAME", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "WEIGHT_NAME", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "SLANT", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "SETWIDTH_NAME", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "ADD_STYLE_NAME", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "PIXEL_SIZE", 0, pixel_size, 0},
	{ "POINT_SIZE", 0, point_size, 0},
	{ "RESOLUTION_X", 0, resolution_x, 0},
	{ "RESOLUTION_Y", 0, resolution_y, 0},
	{ "SPACING", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "AVERAGE_WIDTH", 0, average_width, 0},
	{ "CHARSET_REGISTRY", 0, atom, 0},
	{ "CHARSET_ENCODING", 0, atom, 0},
#if 0
	{ "FONT", 0, atom, 0},
#endif /* 0 */
};

#define NUMITEMS(arr) ((int) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof(arr[0])))

void regenerateFontName(Display *display, XFontStruct *xfs)
{
	int i;
	unsigned long retValue;
	if (xfs)
	{
	     for(i=0;i<NUMITEMS(fontNamePropTable); i++)
		{
		        fontNamePropTable[i].atom = 
				XInternAtom(display, fontNamePropTable[i].name, 0);
			if (XGetFontProperty(xfs, fontNamePropTable[i].atom, &retValue))
			{
				switch(fontNamePropTable[i].type)
				{
					case atom:
						printf("%s", XGetAtomName(display, (Atom)retValue));
						break;

					case pixel_size:
					case point_size:
					case resolution:
					case resolution_x:
					case resolution_y:
					case average_width:
					case scaledX:
					case scaledY:
					case unscaled:
					case scaledXoverY:
					case uncomputed:
							printf("%d", retValue);
							break;
				}
			}
			else
				printf("*");

			if (i != (NUMITEMS(fontNamePropTable)-1))
				printf("-");
			else
				printf("\n");
		}
	}
}


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Subject:  41)  How can I set backgroundPixmap in a defaults file? (What is XPM?) 
I want to be able to do something like this:
	xclock*backgroundPixmap:      /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/rootweave

	You can't do this. The backgroundPixmap resource is a pixmap of the
same depth as the screen, not a bitmap (which is a pixmap of depth 1).
Because of this, writing a generic String to Pixmap converter is impossible,
since there is no accepted convention for a file format for pixmaps.
Therefore, neither the X Toolkit or the Athena widget set define a String to
Pixmap converter; because there is no converter you cannot specify this value
as a resource.  The Athena widget set does define a String to Bitmap converter
for use in many of its widgets, however.  [courtesy Chris D.  Peterson (now
kit@ics.com), 4/90]

However:
	A specific converter which encapsulates much of the functionality of
the xloadimage package by Jim Frost was posted 12/90 by Sebastian Wangnick
(basti@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de); it permits loading of a number of
image formats as a pixmap.

	The leading general-purpose format for pixmaps is the XPM format used
by Groupe Bull in several of its programs, including the GWM window manager,
by AT&T in its olpixmap editor, and by ICS in its interface builder. XPM
distribution, available on ftp.x.org as contrib/xpm.tar.Z, includes
read/write routines which can easily be adapted to converters by new widgets
which want to allow specification of pixmap resources in the above manner.
See information on the xpm-talk mailing list above. XPM 3.4c became available
in 7/94 and is available from ftp.x.org (contrib/libraries/xpm-3.4c.tar.gz)
and avahi.inria.fr; an older version is on the R5 contrib tape. [A set of XPM
icons collected by Anthony Thyssen (anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au) is on
ftp.x.org in contrib/AIcons; the hobbes-icon-xpm3 collection of XPM icons is
on hobbes.nmsu.edu./]

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Subject:  42)  Why can't I override translations? Only the first item works. (sic)

	You probably have an extra space after the specification of the first 
item, like this:
	basic*text.translations:  #override \
	Ctrl<Key>a:    beginning-of-line() \n\ 	
	Ctrl<Key>e:    end-of-line()
					      ^ extra space
The newline after that space is ending the translation definition.
[Thanks to Timothy J. Horton, 5/91]

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Subject:  43)  How can I have a clock show different timezones?

	One solution is xchron, in Volume 6 of comp.sources.x, which can show
the time for timezones other than the local one.
	sunclock on ftp.x.org displays a world map with sun/dark areas and
local and UTC time.
	The OpenWindows clock has a TimeZone property.  Modifications to the
	Xaw clock widget to support hour and minute offsets were posted by
David Herron (david@twg.com).
	A patch for the clock coming with the Xaw3D widgets introduces
resources hourOffset, minuteOffset, gmt; it can be found at
ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/X11/wafe/xaw3d.Clock.patch.

	Alternatively, you can probably set the timezone in the shell from
which you invoke the xclock or oclock, or use a script similar to this:
	#!/bin/sh 
	TZ=PST8PDT xclock -name "La-La" 2> /dev/null &
	TZ=EST5EDT xclock -name "Nyah-Nyah" 2> /dev/null &

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Subject:  44)  I have xmh, but it doesn't work. Where can I get MH?

The xmh mail-reader requires the Rand MH mail/message handling system, which
is not part of the UNIX software distribution for many machines.  A list of
various ftp, uucp, e-mail and US-mail sites for both xmh and MH is given in
the monthly MH FAQ; one source is ics.uci.edu.

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Subject:  45)  Why am I suddenly unable to connect to my Sun X server?  
After a seemingly random amount of time after the X server has been started,
no other clients are able to connect to it.

	The default cron cleanup jobs supplied by Sun (for 4.0.3, at least)
delete "old" (unreferenced) files from /tmp -- including /tmp/.X11-unix, which
contains the socket descriptor used by X. The solution is to add "!  -type s"
to the find exclusion in the cron job.  [10/90]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  46)  Why don't the R5 PEX demos work on my mono screen?

The R5 sample server implementation works only on color screens, sorry.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  47)  How do I get my Sun Type-[45] keyboard fully supported by Xsun?

The R6 Xsun supports Sun Type-[45] keyboards; see the KEYBOARDS section of
the Xsun man page.

Many users wants the Num Lock key to light the Num Lock LED and have the
appropriate effect on the numeric keypad.  The R5 Xsun server as distributed
by the Consortium doesn't do this but there are two different patches
available.

The first patch is written by Jonathan Lemon and fixes the Num Lock related
problems. It is available from ftp.x.org in the file
contrib/Xsun-R5.numlock_patch.Z .

The second is written by Martin Forssen and fixes the Num Lock and Compose
keys and adds support for the different national keyboard layouts for Type-4
and Type-5 keyboards. This patch is available from ftp.x.org in
contrib/sunkbd.930314.tar.Z or via email from maf@dtek.chalmers.se.

[thanks to Martin Forssen (maf@dtek.chalmers.se or maf@math.chalmers.se),
8/92]

A set of patches by William Bailey (dbgwab@arco.com) was posted to newsgroups
11/92 to provide support for the Type-5 keyboard.

(Note that use of xmodmap to map function and arrow keys can make the Type 5
keyboard more useful without needing these patches.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  48)  How do I report bugs in X?

	Generally, report bugs you find to the organization that supplied you
with the X Window System.  If you received the R6 source distribution
directly from the Consortium, please read the file xc/bug-report for
instructions.  [Look in mit/bug-report for R5, mit/doc/bugs/bug-report in
R4.]

[Thanks to Stephen Gildea <gildea@x.org>, 5/91; 12/91]

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Subject:  49)  Why do I get "Warning: Widget class version mismatch"?

	This error, which typically goes on to say, "widget 11004 vs.
intrinsics 11003" indicates that the header files you included when building
your program didn't match the header files that the Xt library you're linking
against was built with; check your -I include path and -L link-path to be
sure.
	However, the problem also occurs when linking against a version of the
X11R4 Xt library before patch 10; the version number was wrong.  Some Sun OW
systems, in particular, were shipped with the flawed version of the library,
and applications which link against the library typically give the warnings
you have seen.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  50)  Why does my SPARC say "Mapping cg3c: No such device or address"?

       The R6 sun ddx uses information returned by the device driver to do
the right thing, so this problem should go away with R6, but the X Consortium
does not have this configuration available to test it.

	This problem comes up on Sun SPARC Classic machines.  There is no X
Consortium fix for this problem, but the correction can be made to X11R5
sources by editing the file "src/mit/server/ddx/sun/sunCG3C.c". Find the
second buffer definition that looks like this:

   typedef struct cg3bc {
   #ifdef sparc
           u_char mpixel[128*1024];         /* bit-per-pixel memory */
           u_char epixel[128*1024];         /* enable plane */
   #endif
           u_char cpixel[CG3B_HEIGHT][CG3B_WIDTH];   /* byte-per-pixel memory */
   } CG3BC, CG3BCRec, *CG3BCPtr;

and change the instances of "128*1024" to "96*1024". Then recompile the
X server.

[thanks to Russ Poffenberger (poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com)]

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Subject:  51)  Where can I find a dictionary server for xwebster?

	Webster's still owns the copyright to the on-line copies of Webster's
Dictionary which are found at various (university) sites. After it became
aware that these sites were then acting as servers for other sites running
xwebster and gnuemacs-webster, it asked that server sites close off external
access.
	[The NeXT machine apparently is also licensed to have the dictionary.
	A Webster daemon for NeXT machines is available from
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (129.79.254.192) in "pub/webster/NeXT-2.0".]
	Unless you want to get a legal on-line copy yourself or can find a
site which can grant you access, you are probably out of luck.

	However, if you are a legitimate site, you'll want to pick up the
latest xwebster, as-is on ftp.x.org:contrib/xwebster.tar.Z [10/91]; the file
xwebster.README includes discussions of the availability, illegality, and
non-availability of dictionary servers.

[courtesy steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU (Steve Miller) and mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels
Mayer) 11/90]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  52)  TOPIC: OBTAINING X AND RELATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  53)  Is X public-domain software?

	No. The X software is copyrighted by various institutions and is not
"public domain", which has a specific legal meaning. However, the X
distribution is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.
	Contributed software, though, may be placed in the public domain by
individual authors.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  54)  How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there?

The Release Notes for each release of X11 specify the changes from the
previous release.  The X Consortium tries very hard to maintain compatibility
across releases.  In the few places where incompatible changes were necessary,
details are given in the Release Notes.  Each X11 distribution site on the
network also offers the Release Notes that go with the release they offer; the
file typically can be found at the top of the distribution tree.

[Stephen Gildea, 1/92]

Things that are incompatible in R6:
	- R6 Xt requires R6 Xlib.
	- R6 Xaw no longer has Clock, Logo, and Mailbox widgets.
	- R6 Xt retains binary compatibility with R5 for all data
	 structures except WMShellPart.  See section 13.4 of the Xt
	 specification for more details.
[Dave Wiggins (dpw@x.org)]

The comp.windows.x.intrinsics FAQ-Xt lists Xt differences among these
versions.

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Subject:  55)  When is X11R6 available?

The tentative schedule (5/94) is:
	Public Release: May 2, 1994
	Contrib Release: June 20, 1994

That is, right now.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject:  56)  What is Fresco? When is Fresco rumored to be available?

Fresco is a user-interface system specified in CORBA IDL.  The sample
implementation from the X Consortium is implemented in C++.  Fresco is
available with X11R6, as a work-in-progress (there is no schedule for a full
release version; the Consortium is still charting future directions).  (Note:
Fresco doesn't require R6, but it does need the R6 imake to build.) It draws
several design ideas from InterViews and will ultimately incorporate much of
the functionality of Xt and Xlib, and add some significant new capabilities
in the areas of structured graphics, device and resolution independent
drawing models, a standard object model (OMG CORBA) and interface definition
language (CORBA IDL), and application linking and embedding.

There is a writeup on Fresco in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual X Technical
Conference, published in Issue 5 of the X Resource, O'Reilly and Associates,
ISBN 1-56592-020-1.

PostScript for Mark Linton's Xhibition94 tutorial notes is in
graphics/fresco/xhibition94.ps.Z on ftp.sgi.com.

[Information from Kaleb Keithley (kaleb@x.org) and Matt Landau (matt@x.org); 
1/94; 4/94.]

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Subject:  57)  Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8?

No; g++ does not cope with the use of explicitly-scoped nested type names as
formal parameter types of return types for member functions.  For example,
the following class definition will not compile with g++:

        class Event {
        public:
            typedef void *Data;

            Event::Data get_data(void);
            int set_data(Event::Data new_data);
        };

Cygnus is aware of this problem and claims it's fixed in the next release of
g++.

(from matt@x.org (Matt Landau))

----------------------------------------------------------------------

David B. Lewis 					faq%craft@uunet.uu.net

		"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday 

-- 
David B. Lewis			Temporarily at but not speaking for ICS
day: dbl@ics.com		evening: dbl%craft@uunet.uu.net

******************************************************************************

Archive-name: x-faq/part3
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

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Subject:  58)! Where can I get X11R6 (source and/or binaries)?

Release 6 was made available to the public on May 2, 1994.
  
As in the past, the Consortium encourages everyone to port their software to
R6 within the first month that R6 is out, and contribute the software back
for inclusion in a "final" R6 distribution.

The X Consortium is making R6 available simultaneously on multiple ftp sites
around the world; the Consortium is also offering R6 on CD-ROM, QIC-150 tape,
and 8mm tape (tar format) and is distributing hardcopy documentation.
Information: X Consortium, R6 Sales Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02142-1301, USA.

You will need about 140Mb of disk space to hold all of the Core distribution.

PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network.
                          
North America anonymous FTP:
Location                    Address               Directory
--------                    -------               ---------

Cambridge, MA               ftp.crl.research.digital.com 
Digital Equipment Corp.     [192.58.206.2]        /pub/X11/R6 
Cambridge Research Laboratory                     /pub/X11/contrib

Lowell, MA                  x11r6.uml.edu         /pub/R6
UMass-Lowell                [129.63.32.4]         /contrib

New York City, NY           ftp.cs.columbia.edu   /archives/X11R6/R6
Columbia University         [128.59.26.5]         /archives/X11R6/contrib
Computer Science Dept

Buffalo New York            ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu  /pub/R6
University at Buffalo       [128.205.7.9]         /pub/R6

Washington DC               ftp.digex.net         /pub/X11/R6
Digital Express Group, Inc. [128.219.128.109]     /pub/X11/contrib

Aberdeen Maryland           ftp.arl.mil           /pub/X11/R6
Army Research Laboratory    [138.18.1.158]        /pub/X11/contrib

Falls Church, VA            ftp.uu.net            /systems/window-sys/X/R6
UUNET Technologies, Inc     [192.48.96.9]         /systems/window-sys/X/contrib

Durham, NC                  ftp.duke.edu          /pub/X11R6
Duke University             [152.3.102.3]

Oak Ridge, Tenn             sws1.ctd.ornl.gov     /unix/X11R6
Oak Ridge National Lab      [128.219.128.109]     /unix/X11R6/contrib

Ann Arbor, MI               ftp.merit.edu         /X11R6
Merit Network, Inc.         [35.1.1.48]           /X11R6/contrib

West Lafayette, Indiana     ftp.cs.purdue.edu     /pub/X11/R6
Purdue University           [128.10.2.1]          /pub/X11/R6
Dept of Computer Sciences

Columbus, Ohio              ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu /pub/X.V11R6/R6
The Ohio State University   [128.146.8.52]        /pub/X.V11R6/R6-contrib
Dept of Computer and Information Science

Albuquerque New Mexico      ftp.eece.unm.edu      /usr/ftp/pub/dist/X/X11R6
Electrical and              [129.24.24.119]       /usr/ftp/pub/dist/X/X11
Computer Engineering UNM

Palo Alto, California       gatekeeper.dec.com    pub/X11/R6
Digital Equipment Corp      [16.1.0.2]            pub/X11/contrib


Europe anonymous FTP:
Vienna, Austria             ftp.Austria.EU.net    /pub/x11/x11r6
EUnet Austria               [192.92.138.34]       /pub/x11/x11r6/contrib

Leuven, Belgium             ftp.eunet.be          /pub/R6
EUnet Belgium               [192.92.130.1]        /contrib

Zagreb, Croatia             ftp.zel.etf.hr        /pub/X11/R6
Faculty of Electrical       [161.53.65.13]        /pub/X11/contrib
Engineering, Dept of Electronics

Prague, Czech Republic      ftp.eunet.cz          /pub/x11/R6
EUnet Czechia               [193.85.1.11]         /pub/x11/R6/contrib

Copenhagen, Denmark         ftp.denet.dk          /pub/X11/X11R6
DENet                       [129.142.6.74]        /pub/X11/contrib

Copenhagen, Denmark         osiris.dknet.dk       /pub/X11/R6
DKnet / EUnet Denmark       [193.88.44.45]        /pub/X11/contrib

Helsinki, Finland           ftp.eunet.fi          /X11R6/release
EUnet Finland               [192.26.119.1]        /X11R6/contrib

France (near Paris)         ftp.inria.fr          /X/X11R6
INRIA Rocquencourt          [192.93.2.54]         /X/xontrib

Paris, France               ftp.ibp.fr            /pub/X11/R6
Institut Blaise Pascal      [132.227.60.2]        /pub/X11/contrib

Dortmund, Germany           ftp.germany.eu.net    /pub/X11/XConsortium/pub/R6
EUnet Deutschland GmbH      [192.76.144.75]       /pub/X11/XConsortium/contrib

Paderborn, Germany          ftp.uni-paderborn.de  /pub/X11/R6
University of Paderborn     [131.234.2.32]        /pub/X11/contrib

Budapest, Hungary           sunserv.sztaki.hu     /pub/X11R6
HUNGARNET                   [192.84.227.1]        /pub/R6-contrib

Dublin, Ireland             ftp.ieunet.ie         /pub/R6
IEunet                      [192.111.39.3]        /pub/R6/contrib

Milano, Italy               ftp.dsi.unimi.it      /pub/R6
DSI, U of Milan             [149.132.2.45]        /export

Milano, Italy               ftp.iunet.it          /X11/X11R6
IUnet NOC                   [192.106.1.6]         /X11/contrib

Oslo, Norway                ftp.eunet.no          /pub/X11/R6
EUnet Norway                [193.71.1.7]          /pub/X11/contrib

Norway                      ftp.unit.no           /pub/X11/R6
U. of Trondheim/SINTEF      [129.241.1.97]        /pub/X11/contrib

Warsaw, Poland              ftp.icm.edu.pl        /pub/X11/R6
ICM, Warsaw University      [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]     /pub/X11/contrib

Lisbon, Portugal            relay.puug.pt         /pub/X11R6
PUUG                        [193.126.4.65]        /pub/X11R6/contrib
Portuguese UNIX Users Group

Moscow, Russia              ftp.kiae.su           /x11/X11R6
RELCOM/EUnet, KIAE          [144.206.136.10]      /x11/X11R6/contrib

Lulea, Sweden               ftp.luth.se           /pub/X11/R6
Lulea University of Technology[130.240.18.2]        /pub/X11/contrib

Zurich, Switzerland         ftp.eunet.ch          /archive/software/X11R6
EUnet Switzerland           [146.228.10.16]       /archive/software/X

Zurich, Switzerland         ftp.switch.ch         /mirror/X11/R6
SWITCH - Swiss Academic &   [130.59.1.40]         /mirror/X11/contrib
Research Network

Amsterdam, The Netherlands  ftp.EU.net            /X11/R6
EUnet Europe                [192.16.202.2]        /X11/contrib

Amsterdam, The Netherlands  ftp.NL.net            /pub/windows/X/R6
NLnet                       [193.78.240.13]       /pub/windows/X/contrib

Canterbury, Kent, UK        ftp.britain.eu.net    /pub/X11R6
EUnet GB                    [192.91.199.5]        /pub/X11R6-contrib

London, UK                  src.doc.ic.ac.uk      /packages/X11R6
SUNsite, Dept of Computing, [146.169.2.10]        /packages/X11-contrib
Imperial College

East Asia anonymous FTP:

Hong Kong                   ftp.cs.cuhk.hk        /pub/X11R6
Computer Science Dept       [137.189.4.57]        /pub/Xcontrib
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Taejon, Republic of Korea   cair.kaist.ac.kr      /pub/X11/R6
Center for Artificial       [143.248.11.170]      /pub/X11/contrib (not yet operational)
Inteligence Research, KAIST

Tokyo, Japan                ftp.iij.ad.jp         /pub/X/X11R6
Internet Initiative Japan   [192.244.176.50]      /pub/X/contrib

Fukuoka, Japan              ftp.ec.kyushu-u.ac.jp /pub/X11R6
Kyushu University           [133.5.10.12]         /pub/contrib

Tokyo, Japan                SunSITE.sut.ac.jp     /pub/archives/X11/R6
Science University of Tokyo [133.31.30.7]         /pub/archives/X11/R6contrib

Tokyo, Japan                ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp     /pub/X11R6
The University of Tokyo     [130.69.254.254]      /pub/X11R6-contrib

Fujisawa, Japan             sh.wide.ad.jp         /X11R6
WIDE Project (Fujisawa)     [133.4.11.11]         /X11R6-contrib

Nara, Japan                 wnoc-nara-ss2.wide.ad.jp /pub/X11R6
WIDE Project (Nara)         [133.4.23.2]          /pub/X11R6-contrib

Tokyo, Japan                ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp  /pub/unix/R6
Roppongi, Minato-ku         [165.76.8.4]          /pub/unix/R6/contrib
Spin project

Taiwan                      NCTUCCCA.edu.tw       /X/X11R6
Campus Computer             [140.111.1.10]        /X/contrib
Communication Assoc.


Australia anonymous FTP:
Location                    Address               Directory
--------                    -------               ---------

Melbourne, Australia        archie.AU             X11/R6
AARNet archive server       [139.130.23.2]        X11/contrib

Melbourne, Australia        munnari.OZ.AU         X.V11/R6
University of Melbourne     [128.250.22.2]        X.V11/contrib

This list will be added to as more information on source locations and binary
kits becomes available.


Additional sources now include:

University of Maryland, USA	destiny.dorm.umd.edu	/pub/X11R6

Hong Kong			ftp.cs.cuhk.hk		/pub/X11R6

The Free Software Foundation's "X11 Tapes" and "May 1994 Souce Code CD-ROM"
contain X11R6. Email: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu; Voice: +1-617-876-3296; 
Fax: +1-617-492-9057. 

Anyone in Europe can get a copy of the X.V11R6 distribution, including the
core and contributed software and all official patches, free of charge.  The
only requirement is to agree to return the tapes, or equivalent new tapes.
Available tape formats are QIC, TK, DAT and Exabyte cartridges.  Contact:
Jamie Watson, Adasoft AG, Nesslerenweg 104, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland.  Tel:
+41 31 961.35.70 or +41 62 61.41.21; Fax: +41 62 61.41.30; jw@adasoft.ch.

Binary distributions include:

X11R6.2 binaries for Sun3 are on ftp.cad.gatech.edu in pub/X11R6. 

X11R6.2 binaries for SPARC SunOS 4.1.3 are accessible through
http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/X11/ (/pub/unix/X11/X11R6 on ftp.enst.fr).

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Subject:  59)  Where can I get X11R5 (source and/or binaries)?

Information about the Consortium's distribution of the sources on 6250bpi and
QIC-24 tape and its distribution of hardcopy of the documents is available
from Software Center, Technology Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 28 Carleton Street, Room E32-300, Cambridge MA 02142-1324,
phone:  617-258-8330.

You will need about 100Mb of disk space to hold all of Core and 140MB to hold
the Contrib software donated by individuals and companies.

PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network.

Note that the RELEASE notes are generally available separately in the same
directory; the notes list changes from previous versions of X and offer a
guide to the distribution.

			  North America anonymous FTP:

California      gatekeeper.dec.com              pub/X11/R5
		16.1.0.2
California      soda.berkeley.edu               pub/X11R5
		128.32.131.179
Indiana         mordred.cs.purdue.edu           pub/X11/R5
		128.10.2.2
Maryland        ftp.brl.mil                     pub/X11R5
		128.63.16.158 (good for MILNET sites)
Massachusetts   crl.dec.com                     pub/X11/R5
		192.58.206.2
Massachusetts   ftp.x.org                       pub/R5
		198.112.44.100 (crl.dec.com is better)
Michigan        merit.edu                       pub/X11R5
		35.1.1.42
Missouri        wuarchive.wustl.edu             packages/X11R5
		128.252.135.4
Montana         ftp.cs.montana.edu              pub/X.V11R5
		192.31.215.202
New Mexico      pprg.eece.unm.edu               pub/dist/X11R5
		129.24.24.10
New York        azure.acsu.buffalo.edu          pub/X11R5
		128.205.7.6
North Carolina  cs.duke.edu                     dist/sources/X11R5
		128.109.140.1
Ohio            ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu          pub/X.V11R5
		128.146.8.52
Ontario         ftp.cs.utoronto.ca              pub/X11R5
		128.100.1.105
Washington DC   x11r5-a.uu.net                  X/R5
		192.48.96.12
Washington DC   x11r5-b.uu.net                  X/R5
		137.39.1.12

		   Europe/Middle East/Australia anonymous FTP:

Australia       munnari.oz.au                   X.V11/R5
		128.250.1.21
Denmark         freja.diku.dk                   pub/X11R5
		129.142.96.1
United Kingdom  src.doc.ic.ac.uk                graphics/X.V11R5
		146.169.3.7 hpb.mcc.ac.uk                   pub/X11r5
		130.88.200.7
Finland         nic.funet.fi                    pub/X11/R5
		128.214.6.100
France          nuri.inria.fr                   X/X11R5
		128.93.1.26
Germany         ftp.germany.eu.net              pub/X11/X11R5
		192.76.144.129
Israel          cs.huji.ac.il                   pub/X11R5
		132.65.6.5
Italy           ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it           pub/X11R5
		149.132.2.1
Netherlands     archive.eu.net                  windows/X/R5
		192.16.202.1
Norway          ugle.unit.no                    pub/X11R5
		129.241.1.97
Norway          nac.no                          pub/X11R5
		129.240.2.40
Switzerland     nic.switch.ch                   software/X11R5
		130.59.1.40

			 Japan anonymous FTP:

Kanagawa        sh.wide.ad.jp                   X11R5
		133.4.11.11
Kwansai         ftp.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp           X11R5
		133.1.12.30
Kyushu          wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp             X11R5
		133.4.14.3
TISN            utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp           X11R5
		133.11.11.11
Tokyo           kerr.iwanami.co.jp              X11R5
		133.235.128.1
Tokyo           scslwide.sony.co.jp             pub/X11R5
		133.138.199.1

				UUCP:

uunet           for UUNET customers             ~/X/R5 decwrl existing
neighbors only         ~/pub/X11/R5
osu-cis                                         ~/X.V11R5
		(not online until ~ 9 Sept)
utai            existing neighbors only         ~/ftp/pub/X11R5
hp4nl           Netherlands only                ~uucp/pub/windows/X/R5



				 NFS:
Missouri        wuarchive.wustl.edu             /archive/packages/X11R5
		128.252.135.4                   mount point: /archive

				 AFS:
Pennsylvania    /afs/grand.central.org/pub/X11R5

		     NIFTP (hhcp, cpf, fcp, ...):
United Kingdom  uk.ac.ic.doc.src                <X.V11R5>
		00000510200001 user "guest"

			      anon FTAM:
United Kingdom  000005102000 (Janet)            X.V11R5
		146.169.3.7 (Internet) 204334504108 (IXI)

			       ACSNet:
Australia       munnari.oz (fetchfile)          X.V11/R5
		Please fetch only one file at a time, after checking that a
		copy is not available at a closer site.

[9/2/91; updated for contrib 10/91]

Anyone in Europe can get a copy of the X.V11R5 distribution, including the
core and contributed software and all official patches, free of charge.  The
only requirement is to agree to return the tapes, or equivalent new tapes.
Only QIC and TK format cartridges can be provided.  Contact: Jamie Watson,
Adasoft AG, Nesslerenweg 104, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland.  Tel: +41 31 961.35.70
or +41 62 61.41.21; Fax: +41 62 61.41.30; jw@adasoft.ch.

UK sites can obtain X11 through the UKUUG Software Distribution Service, from
the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, in several tape
formats.  You may also obtain the source via Janet (and therefore PSS) using
Niftp (Host:  uk.ac.ic.doc.src Name: guest Password: your_email_address).
Queries should be directed to Lee McLoughlin, 071-589-5111#5037, or to
info-server@doc.ic.ac.uk or ukuug-soft@uk.ac.ic.doc (send a Subject line of
"wanted"). Also offered are copies of comp.sources.x, the ftp.x.org contrib
and doc areas and most other announced freely distributable packages.

X11R5 and X11R4 source along with X11R5 contrib code, prebuilt X binaries for
major platforms (R5.21), and source code examples from O'Reilly's books is
available on an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM (with Rock Ridge extensions) from
O'Reilly & Associates. [6/92].

X11R5 source is available on ISO-9660-format CD-ROM for members of the Japan
Unix Society from Hiroaki Obata, obata@jrd.dec.com.

X11R5 source along with GNU source, the comp.sources.x archives, and SPARC
binaries is available on an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM from PDQ Software,
510-947-5996 (or Robert A. Bruce, rab@sprite.Berkeley.EDU).

X11R5 source is available from Automata Design Associates, +1 215-646-4894.

X11R5 source is part of the Free Software Foundation GNU CD-ROM (2nd Edition);
+1 617 876 3296.

Various users' groups (e.g. SUG) offer X sources cheaply, typically on
CD-ROM.

Source for the Andrew User Interface System 6.2 are available on
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu in pub/AUIS and via tape from the Andrew Consortium,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave.,
Pittsburgh PA 15217.  Information: info-andrew-requests@andrew.cmu.edu,
412-268-6710, fax 412-621-8081.

Binaries for X11R5, with shared libX11 and libXmu, for A/UX 2.0.1 are now
available from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/systems/aux/X11R5.  Patches for
X11R5 compiled with gcc (but not shared libraries) are also available.  [John
L. Coolidge (coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu, 10/91)]

A binary tree for the Next by Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) is
on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu; it is missing the server, though.

Binaries for the Sun386i are in vernam.cs.uwm.edu:/sun386i.

Binaries for the HP-PA are on hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15).

Binaries for the HP-PA are on ftp.cae.wisc.edu.

Binaries of X11R5.26 for Sun3/SunOS4.1.1 systems are on ftp.cad.gatech.edu as
X11R5.pl26.slim.sun3.gcc258.tar.gz; the distribution includes also binaries of
common X tools.

Binaries of X11R5 for Solaris 2, packaged for installation with pkgadd, are in
camus.quintus.com:/pub/X11R5.

Source and binaries for HP-UX 8.*/9.0(S300/400/700/800) and Domain 10.4 (68K,
DN 10K) are available through the Interworks Users Group; contact Carol Relph
at 508-436-5046, fax 508-256-7169, or relph_c@apollo.hp.com.

Patches to X11R5 for Solaris 2.1 by Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) et al
are on ftp.x.org in contrib/{R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z,R5.SunOS5.patch.README}.

Patches to X11R5 for the Sun Type 5 keyboard and the keyboard NumLock are
available from William Bailey (dbgwab@arco.com). 

X servers for color and monochrome NeXT machines is on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
in /pub/X11R5-MouseX.tar.Z. Source patches are expected to be on orst and
sonata as X11R5-source.patch.tar.Z.

An X11R5 package for multi-lingual users is available (for SunOS 4.1.3 and 
Solaris 2.1 and later) on ftp.waseda.ac.jp (133.9.1.32) in
ftp/pub3/X11R5/binaries/. 

Also:

Binaries are available from Unipalm (+44 954 211797, xtech@unipalm.co.uk),
probably for the Sun platforms.

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Subject:  60)  Where can I get XDM's Wraphelp.c ?

X11R5/R6 supports a DES-based form of authorization.  There are several
implementations of the file Wraphelp.c, which may be missing from your
distribution; one is on ftp.psy.uq.oz.au:/pub/X11R5.

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Subject:  61)! Where can I get patches to X11? 

	The release of new public patches by the X Consortium is announced
in the comp.windows.x.announce newsgroup.

	Patches themselves are available via ftp from ftp.x.org and from other
sites from which X11 is available. They are now also distributed through the
newsgroup comp.sources.x. Some source re-sellers may be including patches in
their source distributions of X11.

	People without ftp access can use the xstuff mail server. Send to 
xstuff@x.org the Subject line
		send fixes #
where # is the name of the patch and is usually just the number of the patch.

There are 4 patches for X11R6 (8/94); here are a few complications:
	1) fix-02 is in 5 parts; you need to request "2a", "2b", "2c", "2d", 
and "2e" separately
	2) fix-03 refers to a separate file of documentation, fix3docs.tar

----------------------------------------------------------------------
The xstuff server now has 26 patches for X11R5 [11/93].  There will be no more 
patches to X11R5.

	Here are a few complications:
	1) fix 5 is in four parts; you need to request "5a", "5b", "5c" and 
"5d" separately
	2) the file sunGX.uu, which was part of an earlier patch, was 
re-released with patch 7 [note: the file doesn't work with Solaris]
	3) fix 8 is in two parts: "8a" and "8b"
	4) fix 13 is in three parts: "13a", "13b", and "13c"
	5) fix 16 is in two parts: "16a" and "16b"
	6) fix 18 replaces the R5fix-test1 for the X Test Suite, which 
previously was optional
	7) fix 19 also needs PEXlib.tar.Z, which you can obtain from xstuff
by asking for "PEXlib.uu.[1234]".
	8) fix 22 is in 9 parts, "22a" through "22i"

The MIT Software Center, in addition to offering the entire system on tape, is
offering a new tape with public patches 1-23.  Tapes are available in 6250bpi
9-track reel-to-reel and QIC-24 cartridge formats.  Information: +1 617 258
8330

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Subject:  62)  What is the xstuff mail-archive?

	The xstuff server is a mail-response program. That means that you mail
it a request, and it mails back the response.  Any of the four possible
commands must be the first word on a line.  The xstuff server reads your
entire message before it does anything, so you can have several different
commands in a single message (unless you ask for help).  The xstuff server
treats the "Subject:" header line just like any other line of the message.

	The archives are organized into a series of directories and
subdirectories.  Each directory has an index, and each subdirectory has an
index. The top-level index gives you an overview of what is in the
subdirectories, and the index for each subdirectory tells you what is in it.

	1) The command "help" or "send help" causes the server to send you a
more detailed version of this help file.
	2) if your message contains a line whose first word is "index", then
the server will send you the top-level index of the contents of the archive.
If there are other words on that line that match the name of subdirectories,
then the indexes for those subdirectories are sent instead of the top-level
index.  For example, you can say "send index fixes" (or "index fixes"). A
message that requests an index cannot request data.
	3) if your message contains a line whose first word is "send", then
	the xstuff server will send you the item(s) named on the rest of the
line. To name an item, you give its directory and its name. For example
		send fixes 1 4 8a 8b 9 
You may issue multiple send requests.
	The xstuff server contains many safeguards to ensure that it is not
monopolized by people asking for large amounts of data. The mailer is set up
so that it will send no more than a fixed amount of data each day. If the work
queue contains more requests than the day's quota, then the unsent files will
not be processed until the next day.  Whenever the mailer is run to send its
day's quota, it sends the requests out shortest-first.
	4) Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting
return addresses.  If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response.  If
you happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
	path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu or path bar!foo!frotz in the body
	of your message, and the daemon will use it.

	The xstuff server itself can be reached at xstuff@x.org.  If your
mailer deals in "!" notation, try sending to
{someplace}!mit-eddie!x.org!xstuff.

[based on information from the X Consortium, 8/89, 4/90.]

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Subject:  63)  Where can I get X11R4 (source and binaries)?

Note: X11R4 is used by Motif 1.1 implementations. However, it is becoming
increasingly difficult to find in electronic form. This list has been winnowed
down as sites are found to have removed R4 sources. You may be able to find
R4 sources on machines offering X11R5 sources.

	Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., ships X11R4 on half-inch, 
quarter-inch, and TK50 formats. Call 617-621-0060 for ordering information.

	The Free Software Foundation (617-876-3296) sells X11R4 on half-inch 
tapes and on QIC-24 cartridges.  

	Yaser Doleh (doleh@math-cs.kent.EDU; P.O. Box 1301, Kent, OH 44240) is
making X11R4 available on HP format tapes, 16 track, and Sun cartridges. [2/90]

	European sites can obtain a free X11R4 distribution from Jamie Watson,
who may be reached at chx400!pan!jw or jw@pan.uu.ch. [10/90]

	Non Standard Logics (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) makes source
available.

	IXI Limited (+44 223 462 131) is selling X11R4 source on quarter-inch 
cartridge formats and on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy, with other formats available on
request. [IXI, 2/90]

	Virtual Technologies (703-430-9247) provides the entire X11R4 
compressed source release on a single QIC-24 quarter-inch cartridge and also on
1.2meg or 1.44 meg floppies upon request. [Conor Cahill 
(cpcahil@virtech.uu.net) 2/90]

	Young Minds (714-335-1350) makes the R4 and GNU distributions available
on a full-text-indexed CD-ROM.

[Note that some distributions are media-only and do not include docs.]

	X11R4 is ftp-able from ftp.x.org (/pub/R4); these sites are
preferable, though, and are more direct:

                        Machine                  Internet      FTP
    Location            Name                     Address       Directory
    --------            -------                  --------      -------------
(2) Central USA         giza.cis.ohio-state.edu  128.146.8.61  pub/X.V11R4
    Southeast USA       uunet.uu.net             192.48.96.2   X/R4
(4) UK Janet            src.doc.ic.ac.uk         129.31.81.36  X.V11R4
    UK niftp            uk.ac.ic.doc.src                       <XV11R4>
(5) Australia           munnari.oz.au            128.250.1.21  X.V11/R4

The giza.cis.ohio-state.edu site, in particular, is known to have much of the
contrib stuff that can be found on ftp.x.org. 

The release is available to DEC Easynet sites as CRL::"/pub/X11/R4".

Sites in Australia may contact this address: ftp.Adelaide.EDU.AU [129.127.40.3]
and check the directory pub/X/R4. The machine shadows ftp.x.org and archives
comp.sources.x. (Mark Prior, mrp@ucs.adelaide.edu.au, 5/90)

A set of X11R4 binaries built by Tom Roell (roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) 
for the 386/ix will available from ftp.x.org in /contrib and in 
/pub/i386/X11R4 from 131.159.8.35 in Europe. Stephen Hite 
(shite@sinkhole.unf.edu) can also distribute to folks without ftp facilities 
via disks sent SASE; contact him for USmail and shipping details. [12/90] In 
addition, the binaries are available via uucp from szebra [1-408-739-1520, TB+ 
(PEP); ogin:nuucp sword:nuucp] in /usr2/xbbs/bbs/x.  In addition, the source is
on zok in /usrX/i386.R4server/. [2/91] In addition, if you are in the US, the 
latest SVR4 binary (April 15), patches, and fonts are available on 
piggy.ucsb.edu (128.111.72.50) in the directory /pub/X386, same filenames as 
above. (Please use after 6pm Pacific, as these are large files.) [5/91]

A set of HP 9000/800 binaries is available on hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15)
as ~ftp/pub/MitX11R4/libs.x800.Z. [2/91]

A set of X11R4 binaries for the NeXT 2.x have been made available by Howie Kaye
on cunixf.cc.columbia.edu

A set of binaries by John Coolidge (coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu) for the Mac running 
A/UX 2.0 is available from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the file
(/archive/systems/aux/X11R4/Xupdate2.tar.Z). Also in X11R4/diffs is a set of 
patches for making X11R4 with shared libraries with mkshlib.

A complete distribution of SCO X11R4 binaries by Baruch Cochavy 
(blue@techunix.technion.ac.il) can be found on uunet. The server is Roell's 
X386 1.1b, compiled for ET4000 based SVGA boards.

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Subject:  64)  Where can I get OSF/Motif?
	
	You can obtain either OSF/Motif source or binaries from a number of 
vendors. 
	Motif 1.2.4 source is now available; it is based on X11R5.
	Motif 1.1 is based on the R4.18 Intrinsics and is finished [7/92] at 
1.1.5.
	A conformant Motif implementation not based on OSF-derived source is
being developed by fox@crisp.demon.co.uk (Paul Fox).
	An OSF/Motif source license must be obtained from OSF before source can
be obtained from the Open Software Foundation or any value-added vendor for
any version. Call the Direct Channels Desk at OSF at 617-621-7300 for ordering 
information.

	Various hardware vendors produce developer's toolkits of binaries, 
header files, and documentation; check your hardware vendor, particularly if
that vendor is an OSF member. 
	In addition, independent binary vendors produce Motif toolkits for
machines for which Motif is not supported by a vendor; the kits include varied 
levels of bug-fixing and support for shared libraries and are based on widely
divergent version of Motif:
	Quest Windows (408-496-1900) sells kits for Suns, as well; 
	IXI (+44 223 462 131) offers kits for Sun3 and Sun4. 
	NSL (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers kits for the Sun 3 
and Sun 4.
	Bluestone Consulting, Inc. (609-727-4600) offers Motif 1.1.5 & 1.2 for 
SunOS, and Motif 1.2 (X11R5) for Solaris 2.1 & 2.2.
	ICS (617-621-0060) makes several binary kits, notably for Sun, DEC.
	HP and DEC have announced support for Motif on Sun systems.
	Unipalm (+44-954-211-797) currently offers for Sun systems a Motif 
Development Kit including X11R4 and based on Motif 1.1.2. The US distributor is
Expert Object Corp (708-926-8500).
	BIM ships Motif 1.1 binaries for Suns. Shared library support is 
included. Contact Alain Vermeiren (av@sunbim.be) or Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be) 
at +32(2)759.59.25 (Fax : +32(2)759.47.95) (Belgium).
	SILOGIC (+33 61.57.95.95) ships Motif 1.2 and Motif 1.1 on Sun 
machines.
	S.I. Systems offers Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1; info: 1-800-755-8649 in
USA and Canada.
	Metro Link, Inc. (+1 305-938-0283, sales@metrolink.com) ships X11R5
and Motif 1.2.2 (including a sharable libXm.a) for the 386/486 Unix market.
Motif 1.2.3 is also available for QNX, SunOS, Solaris Sparc, and Linux.
	in GmbH  (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers development and user 
kits for SunOS and Solaris.

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Subject:  65)  Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5?

	Motif 1.2 is based on X11R5.
	Motif 1.1, available in source form from OSF as of August 1990, uses 
the "vanilla" X11R4 Intrinsics, where "vanilla" means "with just a few
patches"; the file fix-osf which OSF distributes is obsoleted by the
Consortium's patches 15-17.  The file fix-osf-1.1.1 distributed with the
1.1.1 version or its subsequent modification needs to be applied after fix-18, 
though.

	Motif 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 will work with X11R5 if X11R5 is compiled with
-DMOTIFBC; 1.1.4 and later should work with the vanilla R5, although there are 
some known new geometry-management problems.
	
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Subject:  66)  Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK?

	Sun's XView has a SunView-style API. Version 3.2 is available (7/93)
from xview.ucdavis.edu in /pub/XView/XView3.2 or ftp.x.org in
/contrib/xview3.2.

	XView and X binaries for the Sun 386i ("roadrunner") are available for 
ftp from svin01.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.70), directory pub/X11R4_386i.
	Supported binaries of XView 2.0 or 3.0 include: 

XView for non-Sun Platforms  (domestic and selected international vendors).
Several are also available from Sun; contact your local sales office.

Amiga		GfxBase, Inc.		1881 Ellwell Drive
(AmigaDOS)	(408) 262-1469		Milpitas, CA 95035
		Fax: (408) 262-8276

SGI
Sony (NEWS-OS)
IBM RS/6000
HP 9000
DECstation	UniPress Software	2025 Lincoln Highway
(Ultrix)	(908) 985-8000		Edison, NJ 08817
		Fax: (908) 287-4929

		UniPress Software, Ltd.		PO Box 70
		44-624-661-8850			Viking House
		Fax: 44-624-663-453		Nelson Street
						Douglas, Isle of Man
						United Kingdom

DEC VAXstation	TGV			603 Mission Street
(VMS)		(800) TGV-3440		Santa Cruz, CA 95060
		(408) 427-4366
		Fax: (408) 427-4365

		Unipalm Ltd.			145-147 St. Neots Road
		44-0954-211797			Hardwick
		Fax: 44-0954-211244		Cambridge CB3 7QJ
						England

Intel 386	Quarterdeck Office	150 Pico Boulevard
(DOS)		Systems			Santa Monica, CA 90405
		(213) 392-9851
		Fax: (213) 399-3802

Intel 386	SunSoft Corporation	6601 Center Drive West
(Interactive	310-348-8649		Suite 700
 UNIX and				Los Angeles, CA  90045
 SCO UNIX)	

Stardent	Scripps Institute	Clinic MB-5
(Stellix OS	Fax: (619) 554-4485	10666 N. Torrey Pines Road
 and Titan OS)	Include mailstop MB-5	La Jolla, CA 92057
		By ftp: 192.42.82.8 in pub/binary/{Xview.README,XView.tar.Z}

	AT&T's OPEN LOOK GUI 3.0 Xt-based toolkit is now generally available 
[2/92]; contact 1-800-828-UNIX#544 for information. Binaries are produced
for SPARC systems by International Quest Corporation (408-988-8289). A version
of the toolkit is also produced under the name OLIT by Sun. 
	More recent versions of OLIT have been ported to IBM 6000 and DEC MIPS 
by both UniPress and ICS. OLIT is also available for HP from Melillo Consulting
(908-873-0075). MJM (Somerset, NJ) makes OLIT 4.0 for HP 7xx series running
HPUX 8.0, DECstations, and RS/6000s [thanks to Joanne Newbauer, 
jo@attunix.att.com, 908-522-6677.]

	Sun is shipping OpenWindows 3.0; contact your local sales 
representative for more details; the package includes toolkit binaries and 
header files.

	ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) extensible C++-based Object 
Interface Library, which supports run-time selection between Open Look or 
Motif, is available from 303-678-4626. [5/92]

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Subject:  67)  Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications)

	The MIT Software Center ships the X Test Suite on tape.

	A multi-threaded version of Xlib based on X11R5 patch 12 is now 
available for anonymous FTP from (new version 1/93):
        - DEC on gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2) in /pub/X11/contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
        - the Consortium on ftp.x.org in /contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
Note that this source code will not become the Xlib used in X11R6, although
the Consortium is planning to make Xlib thread-safe with that release.

	HP has made available drivers to permit the building of the X11R5
sample server on the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations; the files are on
ftp.x.org in ~ftp/contrib/R5.HP.SRV. [8/92]

	The Edinburgh University Computing Service and European X User Group
have created an on-line index of public domain X software. The index is
available through gopher and provides an index of the ftp.x.org/contrib
archive, the comp.sources.x archive and various X software found around the
internet. The service holds manual pages, README files , etc which can be
browsed through. A keyword search of the manual pages is also provided.
Information: xindex@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk.

	User-contributed software is distributed through the newsgroup
comp.sources.x, moderated by Chris Olson (chris@imd.sterling.com); also check 
that group for posting information.

	Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) has been creating a list of freely-
available X sources.  The list is stored on ftp.x.org in contrib as
x-source-list.Z. It lists the main storage locations for the program and 
international sites from which it may be ftp'ed.

	The machine ftp.x.org has a great deal of user-contributed software in 
the contrib/ directory; a good deal of it is present in current or earlier
versions on the X11R3, X11R4, and X11R5 contrib tapes. There are also
directories for fixes to contrib software.  The file on ftp.x.org in
contrib/0ftpxorg.dir.Z is a quick overall index of the software in that area,
provided by Daniel Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu).

	These sites used to and may still mirror ftp.x.org and are of particular 
use for Australasia: Anonymous ftp: ftp.Adelaide.EDU.AU; ACSnet Fetchfile: 
sirius.ua.oz.

	The material on giza.cis.ohio-state.edu, which tends to duplicate 
the ftp.x.org archives, is also available via anonymous UUCP from osu-cis, at
TB+ and V.32 speeds.  Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu (same as osu-cis!uucp)
for instructions. [the archive is now maintained by Karl Kleinpaste]

	A new west-coast UUCP X11 Archive is administered by Mark Snitily 
(mark@zok.uucp) and contains the full X11 distribution, the XTEST
distribution, an entire archive of comp.sources.x and other goodies.
	The machine zok has a TB+ modem which will connect to 19.2K, 2400, 
1200 baud (in that order).  The anonymous UUCP account is UXarch with password 
Xgoodies.  The modem's phone number is 408-996-8285.
	A sample Systems (or L.sys) entry might be:
   		zok Any ACU 19200 4089968285 in:--in: UXarch word: Xgoodies
	To get a current listing of the files that are available, download
the file "/usrX/ls-lR.Z".
	A full subject index of the comp.sources.x files is available in the
file "/usrX/comp.sources.x/INDEX".
	The machine has just the one modem, so please do not fetch large 
amounts of data at one sitting.
[courtesy Mark Snitily, 2/90]

In addition, UUNET Source Archives (703-876-5050) tracks comp.sources.x and 
provides 800MB+ of compressed programs on 6250 bpi tapes or 1/4" tapes.  It 
also mirrors ftp.x.org/contrib in its packages/X directory.
	
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Subject:  68)! Where can I get interesting widgets?

O'Reilly Volume 4, Doug Young's book, the Asente/Swick book, and Jerry
Smith's "Object-oriented Programming with the X Window System Toolkits" all
include details on writing widgets and include several useful widgets;
sources are typically on ftp.x.org and/or UUNET.  Doug Young's book, in
particular, contains a version of a tree-like layout object (root and
multiple leaves).

The Free Widget Foundation (FWF) library sponsored by Brian Totty
(totty@cs.uiuc.edu) is now [7/94] available on a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1)
in pub/FWF/fwf-v3.67.shar.Z. The set of widgets there is intended to form the
basis for future contributions. To be added to the discussion list, send to
listserv@cs.uiuc.edu a message saying "subscribe <listname> <your-full-name>"
where <listname> is one of free-widgets-announce, free-widgets-development,
or free-widgets-bugs.

The NCSA Mosaic distribution includes an HTML widget; observe the licensing
restrictions. Information:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/htmlwidget.html.

An object like the Windows "combo box" is part of the Xm++ class library.

Harald Albrecht's (albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) Motif implementation of the
ComboBox object from MSWindows is available on ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
(137.226.112.172) in pub/packages/ComboBox and also on ftp.x.org. Version
1.22a became available 5/94.

Harald Albrecht's (albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) Motif implementation of a
new ToggleButton is on ftp.x.org in
/contrib/widgets/motif/NewToggleB/NewToggleB.tar.gz.  Version 0.91b became
available 5/94.

Harald Albrecht's (albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de) Motif implementation of an
XmCenter layout object is on ftp.x.org in
/contrib/widgets/motif/ButtonFaceLib/ButtonFaceLib.tar.gz.

A library by Jean Michel Leon (leon@sophia.inria.fr) which adds "inset"
facilities to Xt is available on ftp.x.org in contrib/insetlib-0.2.tar.gz.

The XmBoss widget by Doyle Davidson (doyle@ps.atl.sita.int) is a generic
Motif 1.1 layout manager that implements geometry  management through
application callbacks; sources are on ftp.x.org.

The Xew widget set by Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi) contains widgets for
data representation.  Version 2.0 [3/94] is on ftp.x.org in
contrib/Xew-2.0.tar.Z.

Peter Ware's Xo "Open Widget" set, which has Motif-like functionality, is on
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu as pub/Xo/Xo-2.1.tar.Z [8/92].

The AthenaTools Plotter Widget Set Version 6-beta [7/92] maintained by Peter
Klingebiel (klin@iat.uni-paderborn.de) includes many graph and plotting
widgets; a copy is on ftp.x.org in plotter.v6b.tar.Z, plotter.doc.tar.Z,
plotter.afm.tar.Z, and plotter.README. The latest versions may in fact be on
ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32) in /unix/tools, which appears to contain
version 6.0.7. A commercial product sharing the same origins is offered by
Dovetail Consulting.

An advance version of Marc Quinton's Motif port of the FWF MultiList widget
is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr:pub/MultiList.tar.Z [143.196.9.31].

Paul Johnston's (johnston@spc5.jpl.nasa.gov) X Control Panel widget set
emulates hardware counterparts; sources are on ftp.x.org in Xc-1.3.tar.Z.

The VUW widget set contains dials and other device-displays; sources are on
ftp.comp.vuw.ac.nz.

The Dirt interface builder includes the libXukc widet set which extends the
functionality of Xaw.

A graph widget and other 2D-plot and 3D-contour widgets by Sundar Narasimhan
(sundar@ai.mit.edu) are available from ftp.ai.mit.edu as
/pub/users/sundar/graph.tar.Z. The graph widget has been updated [3/91] with
documentation and histogram capabilities.

A graph widget is available from ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Graph.tar.Z;
it uses a segment list for drawing and hence supports a zoom operation.

Ken Lee's Xm widget (demo) that uses Display PostScript to draw labels at a
non-horizontal angle is on ftp.x.org in contrib/dpslabel.tar.Z.

The Table widget (works like troff TBL tables) is available in several
flavors, one of which is with the Widget Creation Library (WCL) release.

Bell Communications Research has developed a Matrix widget for complex
application layouts; it's on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xbae-widgets-3.8.tar.Z
[2/93.  The distribution also includes a "caption" widget to associate labels
with particular GUI components. (7/92)

Dan Connolly's (connolly@convex.COM ??) XcRichText interprets RTF data; it's
on ftp.x.org as contrib/XcRichText-1.2.tar.Z.

The XmGraph Motif-based graphing widget is on iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu in
/comp.hp/GUI_classic/XmGraph.tar.Z although it may not be stable. A widget
also called XmGraph is in the WINTERP 2.0 distribution.

A TeX-style Layout widget by Keith Packard is described in the proceedings of
the 7th X Technical Conference (O'Reilly X Resource issue 5); source is
available on ftp.x.org contrib/Layout.tar.Z.

A version of Lee Iverson's (leei@McRCIM.McGill.EDU) image-viewing tool is
available as contrib/vimage-0.9.3.tar.Z on ftp.x.org. The package also
includes an ImageViewPort widget and a FileDialog widget. [12/91;5/92]

An MPEG viewer by Jan Newmarch (jan@ise.canberra.edu.au) is on ftp.x.org in
mpeg_wdgt2.0b.tar; it requires Motif.

In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson (rthomson@dsd.es.com) is
available on ftp.x.org as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it
easier to use PEX in Xt-based programs.

A Motif port of the Xaw clock widget is in ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in
pub/Clock.tar.Z.

A modification of the Xaw ScrollBar widget which supports the arrowhead style
of other toolkits is on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xaw.Scrollbar.mta.Z.

A release of the R5 Xaw widgets with a 3D visual appearance by Kaleb Keithley
(now kaleb@x.org) is available on ftp.x.org in
contrib/Xaw3d/R5/Xaw3d-0.6.tar.Z. The library, which is binary-compatible
with Xaw, implements a 3D subclass which handles the extra drawing.

The Andrew User Interface System supplies an extensive collection of widgets
including full-blown editors for text, rasters, figures, tables, and so on.

Also:

The Xmt "Motif Tools", Dovetail Systems's shareware library of 9 widgets and
many convenience functions, is available from ftp.x.org:contrib and
ftp.ora.com:/pub/xbook/Xmt in xmt-README and xmt-1.0.tar.Z.

The Xtra XWidgets set includes widgets for pie and bar charts, XY plots,
Help, spreadsheets, data entry forms, and line and bar graphs.  Contact
Graphical Software Technology at 310-328-9338 (info@gst.com) for
information.

The XRT/graph widget, available for Motif, XView and OLIT, displays X-Y
plots, bar and pie charts, and supports user-feedback, fast updates and
PostScript output. Contact KL Group Inc. at 416-594-1026 (info@klg.com).

The Acme Widget Set from EDB (212-978-8822) includes a 2D graph widget that
can be configured like a stripchart.

A set of data-entry widgets for Motif is available from Marlan Software,
713-467-1458 (gwg@world.std.com).

A set of graph widgets is available from Expert Database Systems
(212-370-6700).

A set of OSF/Motif compound widgets and support routines for 2D visualization
is available from Ms Quek Lee Hian, National Computer Board, Republic of
Singapore; Tel : (65)7720435; Fax : (65)7795966; leehian@iti.gov.sg,
leehian@itivax.bitnet.

The ICS Widget Databook includes a variety of control widgets and
special-purpose widgets, available on a variety of platforms.  Information:
617-621-0060, info@ics.com.

Information on graphing tools may be obtained from info@TomSawyer.com
(+1-510-848-0853, fax: +1-510-848-0854).

in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers the "grinx" widget for
drawing vector graphics with dynamic attributes such as blinking and
rotation.

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Subject:  69)! Where can I get a good file-selector widget?

The Free Widget Foundation set offers a FileSelector widget, with separate
directory path and file listing windows, and the FileComplete, which has
emacs-style file completion and ~ expansion.

The Oxford Widget Set includes a simple file-selector; the sources are part
of the simple graphing program in ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk:/pub/ox-src/xow.tar.gz.


Other available file-requestor widgets include the XiFileSelector from Iris
Software's book, the xdbx file-selector extracted by David Nedde
(daven@ivy.wpi.edu), and the FileNominator from the aXe distribution.

The GhostView, Xfig, and vimage packages also include file-selector widgets.

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Subject:  70)  Where can I find a hypertext widget in source code?

A hypertext widget was posted to comp.sources.x.  It can be found in volume
16 of the archives at ftp.uu.net under the name "hman".  The distribution
includes a hypertext widget with both Athena and Motif compatability (set at
compile-time) and hman, a Motif-based man reference page reader that uses the
widget to look up other man topics.  [Joe Shelby
(shelby@dirac.physics.jmu.edu); 6/93]

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David B. Lewis 					faq%craft@uunet.uu.net

		"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday 

-- 
David B. Lewis			Temporarily at but not speaking for ICS
day: dbl@ics.com		evening: dbl%craft@uunet.uu.net

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Archive-name: x-faq/part4
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

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Subject:  71)  What widget is appropriate to use as a drawing canvas?

Some widget sets have a widget particularly for this purpose -- a WorkSpace
or DrawingArea which doesn't display anything but lets your Xt application
know when it has been re-exposed, resized, and when it has received user key
and mouse input.

The best thing to do for other widget sets -- including the Athena set 
-- is to create or obtain such a widget; this is preferable to drawing into a 
core widget and grabbing events with XtAddEventHandler(), which loses a number 
of benefits of Xt and encapsulation of the functionality .  

The publicly-available programs xball and xpic include other versions.  The
Display widget in the XG library (libXG-2.0.tar.Z on ftp.x.org) provides a
generic way of drawing graphics in a widget.

The Athena Widget manual (mit/doc/Xaw/Template in the R5 distribution,
xc/doc/specs/Xaw/Template in the R6 distribution) includes a tutorial and
source code to a simple widget which is suitable for use.

The Free Widget Foundation set contains a Canvas widget.

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Subject:  72)  What is the current state of the world in X terminals?

Jim Morton (jim@applix.com) posts quarterly to comp.windows.x a list of 
manufacturers and terminals; it includes pricing information. 

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Subject:  73)  Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen?

Labtam (+61 3 587 1444, fax +61 3 580 5581) offers a 19" Surface Acoustic
Wave touch-screen option on its Xengine terminals.

Tektronix (1-800-225-5434) provides an X terminal with the Xtouch
touch-screen. This terminal may also be resold through Trident Systems
(703-273-1012).

Metro Link (305-970-7353) supports the EloGraphics Serial Touch Screen
Controllers.

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Subject:  74)  Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)?

       X11R6 contains sources for a number of X servers from XFree86, Inc.:
XF86_S3, XF86_Mach8, XF86_Mach32, XF86_8514, XF86_Mono, XF86_Bdm, XF86_SVGA,
and XF86_VGA16.  See xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86.  Also included in R6 is
Xsvga from SGCS and Thomas Roell; see xc/programs/Xserver/hw/svga.  All of
the above are Unix-based.

	X11R5 already provides a server to many 386/486 *Unixes* with 
support for many of the popular video graphics adapters; and for other 
non-MSDOS PCs you can obtain a server from these sources:

	XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which 
was distributed with X11R5; it includes many bug fixes, speed improvements, and
other enhancements. Source for version 2.0 [10/93] is on ftp.x.org in 
pub/contrib, ftp.physics.su.oz.au in /XFree86, and ftp.win.tue.nl in 
/pub/XFree86. In addition, binaries are on ftp.physics.su.oz.au, and 
ftp.win.tue.nl among other systems. Info: x386@physics.su.oz.au.
	Note: this package obsoletes Glenn Lai's Speedup patches for an 
enhanced X11R5 server for 386 UNIXes with ET4000 boards (SpeedUp.tar.Z on 
ftp.x.org).

	Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact
ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333) ships an implementation of X11R4 for the 386/486 Unix
market.

	SGCS offers X386 Version 1.3, based on Thomas Roell's X11R5 two-headed
server, in binary and source form. Information: 408-255-9665, info@sgcs.com.

	ISC, SCO, UHC, and other well-known operating-system vendors typically
offer X servers.

	For MSDOS PCs:

Daniel J. McCoy (mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov) has started posting monthly a 
list of non-UNIX servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas; it includes pricing 
information. The current copy is kept on ftp.x.org in contrib as 
XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z. 

An article on PC X servers appears in the March 2, 1992 Open Systems Today.

	Also of possible use:

	Net-I from Programit (212-809-1707) enables communication among 
DOS, OS/2 and Unix machines and can be used to display PC sessions on your
Unix X display.

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Subject:  75)  Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS?

	eXodus from White Pine Software (603-886-9050) runs on any Mac with
at least 1MB of memory and supports intermixing of X and Mac windows and
also supports the SHAPE extension. Version 5.0 became available 10/93.

	Apple's MacX runs on MacPlus or newer machines with >= 2MB of memory
and system software 6.0.4 or later. Version 1.1 is fully X11R4-based.  It 
supports full ICCCM-compatible cut and paste of text AND graphics between the 
Macintosh and X11 worlds, the SHAPE extension (including SHAPEd windows on the 
Macintosh desktop), an optional built-in ICCCM-compliant window manager, X11R4 
fonts and colors, a built-in BDF font compiler, and built-in standard 
colormaps. Upgrades to MacX are available by ftp from aux.support.apple.com. 
Info: 408-996-1010.  
	[Note: MacX is also the name of a vax-mac xmodem transfer utility.]

	Machten sells a MacOS X server based on R4 and also a Mach 
implementation for the Macintosh, including X and Motif support.

	Also: 

	Liken (1-800-245-UNIX or info@qualix.com) software enables monochrome
68000 Mac applications to run on a SPARC system running X. 
	Xport (1-800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200) or xport@qualix.com) enables Mac 
applications to display on an X-based workstation by turning the Mac into an X 
client. [Note: there are questions on whether this product is still available.]
	Intercon has a product called Planet-X which enables Mac applications
to display on an X server.

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Subject:  76)  Where can I get X for the Amiga?

	The new Amiga 3000 machines offer an X server and OPEN LOOK tools and
libraries on a full SVR4 implementation.

        GfxBase, Inc. provides "X11 R4.1" for the AmigaDos computer; it 
contains X11R4 clients, fonts, etc., and a Release 4 color server. An optional 
programmer's toolkit includes the header files, libraries, and sample programs.
Info from GfxBase, 408-262-1469. [Dale Luck 
(uunet!{cbmvax|pyramid}!boing!dale); 2/91]

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Subject:  77)  Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home?

	Until LBX (q.v.) is more common, an option includes NCD's PC-XView
with PC-Xremote.
	sxpc 1.2 (by Robert Andrew Ryan (rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu)) is a simple X
protocol compressor. Sources are on atk.itc.cmu.edu (in sxpc-1.0.shar.Z), or
from ftp.x.org (in contrib/sxpc-1.2.shar.Z)

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Subject:  78)  Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation?

	The R5 server should be among the fastest available for most machines.

	Sun sells a "Direct Xlib" product which improves rendering for 
applications running on the same machine as the X server; the replacement Xlib
library accesses graphics hardware directly using Sun's Direct Graphics Access 
(DGA) technology.

Several companies are making hardware accellerator boards:

	Dupont Pixel Systems (302-992-6911), for Sun.

	Megatek's (619-455-5590) X-cellerator board for the Sun 3 and Sun 4 is 
based on the TI 34020; the company claims performance improvements of 5x to 
10x over the sample X11R3 server.

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Subject:  79)  Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board?

       The R6 Xsun24 server supports the CG8 (RasterOps SPARC Card TC).  The
R6 Xsun also supports multiple framebuffers of the same type. (It's possible
that this code will work for a CG9, and for a CG12 as a dumb memory frame
buffer. The X Consortium doesn't have a CG9 or a CG12 at the X Consortium and
so is not able to provide support for these frame buffers.)

        Takahashi Naoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, ntakahas@etl.go.jp) has 
modified the X11R5 server to support the Sun CG8, CG9, and CG12 boards.  
The files are on ftp.x.org in contrib/Xsun24-3.[01].tar.Z.  Note that both 
files are necessary to build Xsun24-3.1.

	The R5 Xsun Multi-screen server is a general purpose replacement for
the pre-R6 server/ddx/sun layer; it supports multiple framebuffers of the same
type and implements several other features above the Consortium implementation.
Available on ftp.x.org in the file contrib/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z. [Kaleb 
Keithley, now kaleb@x.org, 12/91; the file was updated 24 Mar 1993.]

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Subject:  80)  Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50?

	Seth Robertson (seth@ctr.columbia.edu) has written Xkernel; the current
version [1.4 as of 8/91, 2.0 expected RSN] is on sol.ctr.columbia.edu 
[128.59.64.40] in /pub/Xkernel.gamma. It turns a Sun 3/50 into a pseudo- X 
terminal; most of the overhead of the operating system is side-stepped, so it 
is fairly fast and needs little disk space.
	A similar approach is to run the regular X server by making /etc/init
a shell script which does the minimal setup and then invokes Xsun, like this
example script from mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU:

#! /bin/sh
exec >/dev/console 2>&1
/etc/fsck -p /dev/nd0
case $? in
 	0)	;;
 	4)	/etc/reboot -q -n
 		;;
 	8)	echo ND fsck failed - get help
 		/etc/halt
 		;;
 	12)	echo Interrupted
 		/etc/reboot
 		;;
 	*)	echo Unknown error in reboot fsck - get help
 		/etc/halt
 		;;
esac
/bin/dd if=/tmp-fs of=/dev/nd2 bs=512 count=128 >/dev/null 2>&1
/etc/mount /dev/nd2 /tmp
/etc/ifconfig le0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 132.206.41.255
/etc/mount -o ro apollo:/u2/x11/lib /local/lib/X11
/etc/route add default 132.206.41.1 1 >/dev/null
set `/etc/ifconfig le0`
exec /Xsun -once -multidisp -mux -query \
	`(sh -vn </local/lib/X11/xdm-servers/$2 2>&1)`

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Subject:  81)  What terminal emulators other than xterm are available?

	People from PCS have rewritten xterm from scratch using a multi-widget
approach that can be used by applications. Emu supports features like color,
blinking text/cursors. Emulations can be added on the fly; one emulation
provided is for the Vt220. A version is on the R5 contrib tape; the newest
release is on ftp.x.org [10/93] in contrib/emu.tar.gz.  For more information,
contact emu@pcs.com.

	A set of modifications for color support to xterm is on ftp.x.org in 
xterm_color.diffs.Z.

	mxterm, a Motif-based xterm is available from the Paderborner 
ftp-Server ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32), file 
/unix/X11/more_contrib/mxterm.tar.Z. A version is also on ftp.x.org, as
is apparently a set of color modifications.

	The Color Terminal Widget provides ANSI-terminal emulation compatible
with the VTx00 series; a version is on ftp.x.org in contrib/CTW-1.1.tar.Z. A
Motif version is on ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Term-1.0.tar.Z.
	
	kterm 4.1.2 is an X11R4-based vt100/vt102 (and Tektronix 4014) terminal
emulator that supports display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (in VT 
mode).  Also supported are: ANSI color sequences, multi-byte word selection, 
limited Compound Text support, and tab and newline preservation in selections.
kterm 4.1.2 is also available from these anonymous ftp sites:
	clr.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  [128.123.1.14]
	ftp.x.org:contrib/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  
	kum.kaist.ac.kr:pub/unix/Xstuffs/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  [137.68.1.65]
[courtesy of Mark Leisher <mleisher@nmsu.edu> ]
	kterm-5.2.0.tar.gz is now on ftp.x.org [1/94].

	mterm, by mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, is an X terminal emulator
which includes ANSI X3.64 and DEC emulation modes.  mterm can be had by ftp to 
collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.78.1), in X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax.

	color_xterm is available from ftp.x.org.

	Cxterm is a Chinese xterm, which supports both GB2312-1980 and the 
so-called Big-5 encoding.  Hanzi input conversion mechanism is builtin in 
cxterm.  Most input methods are stored in external files that are loaded at run
time.  Users can redefine any existing input methods or create their own ones.
The X11R5 cxterm is the rewritten of cxterm (version 11.5.1) based on X11R5 
xterm; it is in the R5 contrib software.  [thanks to Zhou Ning 
<zhou@tele.unit.no> and Steinar Bang <uunet!idt.unit.no!steinarb>.]

	XVT is available on ftp.x.org's contrib in xvt-1.0.tar.Z and 
xvt-1.0.README. It is designed to offer xterm's functionality with lower swap 
space and may be of particular use on systems driving many X terminals. A
second version, 2.0, is on unix.hensa.ac.uk in misc/unix/xvt/xvt-2.0.tar.Z
(see also xvt-2.0.patch[12]).

	x3270 is in X11R5 contrib/.

	The typescript application and inset in the Andrew User Interface
System offers a shell script interface.  It does not provide curses support,
but does permit general cut/copy/paste to construct commands or extract a
portion of the log.

	hanterm (2.0), by jksong@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, is an xterm modified to
support Hangul (Korean writing system) input/output.  It's available at
several Korean archives(cair.kaist.ac.kr,kum.kaist.ac.kr,etc) and
seoul.caltech.edu in the US. This version makes obsolete an older version not
based on xterm.
	Another experimental hanterm implementation, hanterm (3.0 alpha), is
underway by Chang Hyeong-Kyu at chk@ssp.etri.re.kr; it was written to support
a 3-byte Hangul code (dictionary ordered), which can compose all possible
Hangul characters.

	A GenTerm widget is on iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu.  It contains a pty
widget which can be attached to a shell.  Note that the vt100 emulation
hasn't been that well tested.

Also:
	IBM sells a 3270 emulator for the RS/6000 (part #5765-011); it's based
on Motif. 
	
	Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X. 
VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available. 

	Grafpoint's TGRAF-X provides emulation of Tektronix 4107, 4125, and 
42xx graphics terminals; it's available for most major platforms. Information
(inc. free demo copies): 800-426-2230; Fax. 408-446-0666; uunet!grafpnt!sales.

	IXI's X.deskterm, a package for integrating character-based 
applications into an X environment, includes a number of terminal-emulation
modules. Information: +44 (0223) 462131. [5/90]

	Pericom produces Teem-X, a set of several emulation packages for a
number of Tek, DEC, Westward, and Data General terminals. The software runs on
Sun 3, Sun 4, Apollo, DEC, ISC, IBM/AIX. Information: US: 609-895-0404, 
UK: +44 (0908) 560022. [5/90]

	SCO's SCOterm (info@sco.COM), part of its Open Desktop environment, is
a Motif-compliant SCO ANSI color console emulator.

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Subject:  82)  Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor?

	No; these features are not offered by the xterm program.  However, 
several of the emulators mentioned above do offer these features; the list is 
partial:
	- mterm, color-xterm, CTW and emu support colored text
	- mterm and emu support blinking text
	- mterm and emu support block and underline text cursors
	- emu supports a blinking text cursor 

[Thanks to Michael Elbel (me@dude.pcs.com); 10/93]

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Subject:  83)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor?

You can ftp a version of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable,
self-documenting, real-time display editor, including X11 support, from
prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:/pub/gnu/. Version 19 has some mouse/menu
support.

Epoch is a modified version of Gnu Emacs (18) with additional facilities
useful in an X environment. Current sources are on cs.uiuc.edu
(128.174.252.1) in ~ftp/pub/epoch-files/epoch; the current [8/92] version is
4.2. [In Europe, try unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de].  There are two
subdirectories: epoch contains the Epoch source, and widgets contains code
for adding scrollbars to Epoch.  You can get on the Epoch mailing list by
sending a request to epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu.  Epoch is no longer
supported.  The official successor to Epoch is Lucid Emacs which is available
at cs.uiuc.edu in ~ftp/pub/lemacs.  All functionality which was only present
in Epoch is gradually being ported to Lucid Emacs.

Lucid Emacs is a version of GNU Emacs derived from an early version of Emacs
version 19.  It currently requires X Windows to run;  X support is greatly
enhanced over GNU Emacs version 18, including support for multiple X windows,
input and display of all ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) characters, Zmacs/Lispm style
region highlighting, a customizable Motif-like menubar, more powerful keymap
support, flexible text attributes, support on regional and screen-local basis
through X resources and/or lisp, and support for the X11 selection mechanism.
Lucid Emacs is free; the latest version (6/94) is 19.10, and is available
from labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.112) in the pub/gnu/lucid directory.

The vi-like editor VILE supports a pure-X mode, in which it operates much
like vi running in an xterm window.  Though not a strict vi clone, [x]vile is
designed to feel like vi to the practiced user; it adds many useful features,
most notably multiple buffer and window capabilities.  Version 4.5, which
also supports Xt-based implementations (including a Motif version) is
available on ftp.cayman.com in pub/vile. Information: Paul Fox
(pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us).

The Andrew system on the X11 contrib tapes has been described as one of the
best word-processing packages available. It supports word processing with
multi-media embedded objects: rasters, tables/spread sheets, drawings, style
editor, application builder, embedded programming language, &c.  [Fred Hansen
(wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)] Version 6.3 should be on the R6 tapes and is also in
ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AUIS/dist-6.3.  You may be able to use the
Remote Andrew Demo service to try this software; try "finger
help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.

The InterViews C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG editor called Doc; it saves and
loads files in a LaTeX-*like* format (not quite LaTeX).  The package can also
import idraw-PostScript drawings.

NEdit 3.0 (4/94) is a Motif-based text editor supporting multiple windows and
multi-level undo; it is very complete in its features while remaining very
easy to use.  Sources are on ftp.x.org and also from fnpspb.fnal.gov, which
also offers pre-built binaries several platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, and
DEC systems.  Information: Mark Edel (edel@fnal.gov).

aXe (by J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk), a multi-buffer, multi-window text editor
based around the Xaw Text Widget, is available on ftp.x.org and
arjuna.newcastle.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) as aXe-6.1.2.tar.Z [6/94]. aXe offers
a hypertext help system and extension via Tcl.

asedit, by A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk, is an easy-to-use text editor built around
Motif text widget. It supports multiple windows, pull-down and pop-up menus,
multiple undo and redo, and so on.  Version 1.31, the International Free
Release, includes the following language versions: English, Danish, Dutch,
French, German, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. All commands and messages are
localized for each language (the context sensitive, hypertext on-line help is
available only in English). asedit is available from ftp.x.org in
/contrib/editors as asedit-1.31.tar.Z [6/94].

BETH is a Browsing and Editing Tcl Hypertool available from
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in /pub/tcl/code/beth4.1.tar.gz.  Features include
unlimited undo, menus, vertical/horizontal grids, and name completion.
Info:  svoboda@ece.cmu.edu (David Svoboda).

The DGC Tools, on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in pub/tcl/code/dgctools-0.2.tar.Z,
include Tke, a TclX/Tk-based multi-window X11 text editor. Information is
available from Dave Clemans (dave_clemans@mentorg.com), who promises a
significant update soon.

The js tools by Jay Sekora, on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in
pub/tcl/code/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z and on princeton.edu in
pub/js/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z, include a extensible text editor.

Mxedit is a fully functional text editor based on the Tk mxedit widget. The
editor features indefinite undo/redo/crash recovery, search/replace, and
extensibility via Tcl programming. The latest version is always avaiable on
parcftp.xerox.com under the /pub/mxedit directory.  The Tcl archive mirror
site harbor.ecn.purdue.edu also has a copy in /pub/tcl/code.  Version 2.3.1
is soon (7/94) to be updated to 2.4.  The contact for mxedit is
welch@parc.xerox.com (Brent Welch)

Sam is an interactive multi-file text editor intended for bitmap displays. A
textual command language supplements the mouse-driven, cut-and-paste
interface to make complex or repetitive editing tasks easy to specify. The
language is characterized by the composition of regular expressions to
describe the structure of the text being modified. Sam was written by Rob
Pike for the Bell Labs Blit/Gnot and later Plan 9, and ported to Unix by
Howard Trickey (also of Bell Labs).  Sam can be ftp'd from research.att.com,
directory /dist/sam; the mailing list itself is archived on
ftp.sys.utoronto.ca in /pub/sam.  Send subscription requests for the sam-fans
mailing list to the address sam-fans-request@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca.

textedit is part of Sun's OpenWindow's DeskSet and the public XView
distribution.

(public editors below this line not recently confirmed)

TED is a simple Motif-based text editor; it is a wrapper around the Motif
text widget which offers search/replace, paragraph formatting, and navigation
features. TED is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) as
/pub/bill.tar.Z; there are also executables there.

Point, by crowley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Charlie Crowley), is Tcl/Tk-based and
offers dyanimic configuration and programming in the Tcl macro language.  The
editor is available from cs.unm.edu in pub/Point/point1.63.tar.Z.

xcoral, a multi-window mouse-based text editor, is on ftp.inria.fr; it also
has bindings similar to emacs and has a built-in browser for C and C++ code.
A version is also on ftp.Uni-Oldenburg.DE in
pub/unix/appl/edit/xcoral-2.1.tar.Z.

jed is available from rhino.cis.vutbr.cs in pub/software/czech.

Commercial products include:

A commercial version of Asedit (see above) is available from Stochniol
Advanced Software (+44 (0)81-679-5795, astoch@ic.ac.uk).

Iris Computing Laboratories offers the "ie" editor. Info:  +1-505-298-2700 or
info@spectro.com. (See the review in the 1/94 Unix Review.)

Qualix Group (info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200)) offers a
BRIEF-compatible, X-based GUI editor that runs on all major UNIX
platforms as well as PCs.  CRISP offers a multi-window/multi-buffer
environment with color highlighting. It is fully customizable.

VITAL (713-781-7406) offers the Crisp editor, a work-alike superset of the
popular BRIEF editor, for several systems.  Previously-available source
versions have been withdrawn from circulation.

FrameMaker and FrameWriter are available as X-based binary products for
several machines. Frame is at 800-843-7263 (CA: 408-433-3311).

WX2 (formerly InDepthEdit) is available from Non Standard Logics (+33 (1) 44
08 70 80; requests@nsl.fr).

The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, MA:
508-870-0300) include a multi-font WYSIWG document composer; for several
systems.

(commercial products below this line not recently confirmed)

Elan Computer Group (Mountain View, CA; 415-964-2200) has announced the
Avalon Publisher 2.0, an X11/OPEN LOOK WYSIWYG electronic publishing system.

Buzzwords International Inc. has an editor called 'Professional Edit' that
runs under X/Motif for various platforms.  Info: +1-314-334-6317.

DECwrite is available from DEC for some DEC hardware and SunWrite is
available from Sun.

IslandWrite will soon be available from Island Graphics (415-491-1000)
(info@island.com) for some HP & Apollo platforms.

Interleaf is currently available from Interleaf (800-241-7700, MA:
617-577-9800) on all Sun and DEC platforms; others are under development.

ArborText, Inc. provides an X11 version of its Electronic Publishing program
called "The Publisher". The Publisher is available on Sun, HP and Apollo
workstations. Contact Arbortext at 313-996-3566. [5/90]

Typex is a Motif-based editor available for several systems.  Information:
Amcad Research, 408-867-5705, fax -6209.

WordPerfect offers an X-based version of WordPerfect for several
workstations. Information: 801-222-5300 or 800-451-5151.

Bradford Business Systems (714-859-4428) offers SpeedEdit for several
systems.

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Subject:  84)  Where can I get an X-based mailer?

xmh, an X interface to mh, is distributed with the X11 release.

exmh is a TK-based user interface to MH mail.  It supports arbitrarily nested
folder structures, and it helps you find new mail if you pre-sort it into
different folders as it arrives.  It parses MIME messages and has a limited
MIME composition facility.  You can hook it up to your favorite editor, or
use its built-in editor.  exmh is extensible via Tcl programming and X
resource-based button and menu specifications.  The latest version of exmh is
always available on parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/exmh and a mirror copy is
available on the Tcl archive site, harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code.  The
current version of exmh is 1.4.  The contact for exmh is welch@parc.xerox.com
(Brent Welch)

Xmail is an X-based window interface to Berkeley-style mail handlers; it is
styled primarily after the Sunview mailtool application and builds on most
Unix systems. The current release [1/92] is 1.4, available in the X11R5
contrib tape and from ftp.x.org and uunet. Info: Jeff Markham,
markham@cadence.com.

adcmail (0.9 pre-release), on ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk provides all the normal mail
facilities (message management, aliases, etc.); work is underway to tidy
things up a little and to add MIME compliancy.

MMH (My Mail Handler), a motif interface to the MH mail handler, is available
from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) in pub/bill.tar.Z; it is bundled with the
TED editor, which it uses for composing messages. Motif 1.1 is required; if
you don't have it, look for DEC and SPARC executables in the same place.
Information and problems to: Erik Scott, escott@eos.ncsu.edu. [1/92]

The Andrew Toolkit supports the Andrew Message System; it is available from
ftp.x.org and many other X archives and from ftp.andrew.cmu.edu
(128.2.232.154), or send email to susan+@andrew.cmu.edu. Release 5.1 became
available 2 June 92.  You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service
to try this software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help.

XMailTool is an Xaw-based interface to a BSD-style mail reader; version 2.0
was released 9/92. Information: Bob Kierski, bobo@cray.com or 612-683-5874.

Cem is a Motif-based mailer using standard mailbox formats; it is on
nelson.tx.ncsu.edu in pub/Cem. Information: Sam Moore (Sam_Moore@ncsu.edu).

MuMail, an X-based elm-like mail program is available at
sipb.mit.edu:/pub/seyon/MUMAIL or sunsite.unc.edu in
/pub/Linux/system/Mail/Mumail-2.3b-tar.Z.

Xelm is a work-in-progress by wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk to construct an X
version of the elm mailer.

Also:

Alfalfa Software offers Poste, a UNIX-based mailer that has Motif- and
command-based interfaces.  It includes support for multimedia enclosures, and
supports both the Internet and X.400 mail standards.  Information:
info@alfalfa.com, +1 617-497-2922.

Z-Code Software offers Z-Mail for most Unix systems; binaries support both
tty and Motif interfaces. The mailer includes a csh-like scripting language
for customizing and extending mail capabilities.  Information:
info@z-code.com, +1 415 499-8649.

Several vendors' systems include X-based mailers. DEC offers dxmail; Sun
offers an X-based mailtool; SCO (info@sco.com) includes SCOmail in its Open
Desktop product. HP offers the MPower product.

Several integrated office-productivity tools include mailers:

The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, MA:
508-870-0300) include a mailer.

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Subject:  85)  Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program?

Drawing Packages:

	xpic is an object-oriented drawing program. It supports multiple font 
styles and sizes and variable line widths; there are no rotations or zooms.
xpic is quite suitable as an interactive front-end to pic, though the 
xpic-format produced can be converted into PostScript. (The latest version is 
on the R4 contrib tape in clients/xpic.)

	xfig (original work by Supoj Sutanthavibul, with additional work and
currently maintained by Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)) is an
object-oriented drawing program supporting compound objects.  The xfig format
can be converted to PostScript or other formats. Recent versions are on the
R5 contrib tape or on ftp.x.org in /contrib/R5fixes (version 2.1.8 [10/93]).

        idraw supports numerous fonts and various line styles and arbitrary 
rotations. It supports zoom and scroll and color draws and fills. The file 
format is a PostScript dialect. It can import TIFF files. Distributed as a part
of the InterViews C++ toolkit (current release 3.1, from 
interviews.stanford.edu) .

	tgif by William Cheng (william@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) is available from most
uucp sites and also from ftp.x.org and from cs.ucla.edu. It is frequently 
updated; version 2.15.6 was released 6/94.

	figure in the Andrew User Interface System (versions 5.2 and above) is
a general drawing package which also allows arbitrary Andrew insets to be part
of the drawing.

	Picasso 3.8, an interactive drawing tool in the style of idraw,
is on zenon.inria.fr in pub/tk (it requires tk and tclX).

Commercial Draw Products: 

	FrameMaker has some draw capabilities. [4/90]
	Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
	Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
	Ficor AutoGraph, 513-771-4466
	IslandGraphics offers IslandDraw.  Info: 415-491-1000.

	BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
(617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90]

	Corel Draw, 613-728-8200; ported to X by Prior Data Sciences 
800-267-2626

	sphinx is a family of tools for the realization of dynamic drawings;
it contains the vector-drawing objecft grinx and an interactve X-based editor.
The toolbox is available from in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de).
	
Paint Packages:

	XPaint 2.1, by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com), is a color
bitmap/pixmap editing tool featuring most standard paint program options.  It
allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various
formats, including PPM, XBM, etc.  The current version is available for ftp
from ftp.x.org as contrib/xpaint-2.1.1.tar.Z [1/94]

	A new OpenWindows PostScript-based graphical editor named 'ice' is now 
[2/91] available for anonymous ftp from Internet host lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu 
(129.236.10.30).  ice (Image Composition Environment) is an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript 
annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript 
rasterizing. (It may require OpenWindows and Sun C++ 2.0.)

	The "pixmap" program by Lionel Mallet (mallet@sophia.inria.fr) for
creating pixmaps is on the R5 contrib tape; it resembles the bitmap client.
Version 2.6 is now available [5/94] on ftp.x.org and avahi.inria.fr.

	A version of Robert Forsman's (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu) xscribble,
an 8-bit paint program for X, is now on ftp.cis.ufl.edu in pub/thoth/. [2/93]

	Although MetaCard is not generally classified as a paint program, a 
full 24-bit color image editor is built into the program, which can be used for
light image editing and for producing color icons (info@metacard.com). MetaCard
is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or 
128.138.213.21.
	
	pixt by J. Michael Flanery (flanery@mips.com) produces XPM output; it
is available on ftp.x.org. 

	xpe on ftp.x.org produces XPM output.

	Phoenix is a 24-bit editor for editing of photos, notably. An
alpha is on nic.funet.fi:pub/graphics/packages/phoenix.

	Yaged (Yet Another Graphics EDitor) is an X/Motif(1.1) TIFF pixmap
editor. Sources are on ftp.sbu.ac.uk in /pub/MotifStuff/yaged.

	The SENBEI paint program by Kenichi Chinen
(k-chinen@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) is available through
ftp://shika.aist-nara.ac.jp/chinen/sp/sp940521.tar.Z. It loads and saves
several file formats.

Commerial Paint Products:

	DEC Ultrix includes the dxpaint bitmap editor.
	OpenWindows includes the olpixmap editor.
	SCO ODT includes the SCOpaint editor.
	HP VUE includes the vueicon editor.
	Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999
	Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960
	IslandGraphics offers IslandPaint. Info: 415-491-1000.

	xgremlin, a simple drawing editor, is available from PubDraw.

	BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
(617-873-5000). [11/90]

Several integrated office-productivity tools include draw/paint capabilities:

	The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, 
MA: 508-870-0300) include draw/paint capabilities.

[thanks in part to Stephen J. Byers (af997@cobcs1.cummins.com), J. Daniel
Smith (dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com), and David Koblas
(koblas@netcom.com)]

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Subject:  86)  Where can I get an X-based plotting program?

These usually are available from uucp sites such as uunet or other sites as
marked; please consult the archie server to find more recent versions.
See also the comp.graphics FAQ.

 gnuplot	X (xplot), PostScript and a bunch of other drivers.
	ftp.x.org [and elsewhere]:contrib/gnuplot3.4a.tar.Z

 gl_plot	X output only [?]
	comp.sources.unix/volume18

 graph+
	yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au:/pub/graph+.tar.Z [131.170.24.42]
	comp.sources.unix/volume8

 pdraw,drawplot		2D and 3D X,PS
	scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/3dplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
	scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/contour.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
	scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/drawplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
	uunet:~ftp/contrib/drawplot.tar.Z

 xgraph		plot, zoom. Outputs PS or HPGL.
	shambhala.berkeley.edu:/pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.32.132.54]
	sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:X11/contrib/xgraph-11.tar.Z [132.230.1.1]
	nisc.jvnc.net:pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.121.50.7]
	comp.sources.x/volume3
	or many other sites 

 ACE/gr (formerly xvgr and xmgr) XY plotting tools
	ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]:CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-3.00.tar.Z

 XGobi		An interactive dynamic scatter-plotting tool from Bellcore
	lib.stat.cmu.edu: general/xgobi* [log in as statlib with your email
	as the password; or send email to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu containing
	the one-line message "send xgobi from general"]
	Information from: Debby Swayne, dfs@bellcore.com.

 Robot		a scientific XView-based graph plotting and data analysis tool
	ftp.astro.psu.edu:pub/astrod/robotx0.47.tar.Z [128.118.147.28]

 plotmtv	a multi-purpose 2D/3D plotter
	tanqueray.berkeley.edu:/pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z
 XgPlot		Motif-based x-y graphing with a movie-loop display
	ftp.x.org:XgPlot-4.1.tar.Z

[2/91. Thanks in part to: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti); geoff@Veritas.COM 
(Geoffrey Leach); Paul A. Scowen (uk1@spacsun.rice.edu); black@beno.CSS.GOV 
(Mike Black)]

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Subject:  87)  Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program?

	Xgrab reads a textual specification of a graph, lays out the graph
using heuristics to minimize the number of edge crossings, and displays the
graph as labeled nodes and edges in an X window. Sources are on
ftp.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) as pub/xgrab.tar.Z. Interviews 2.6 is 
required. [12/93]
	The DaVinci visualization tool can be used to display graphs.

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Subject:  88)! Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet?

A version of "sc" for X and which supports Lotus files is available from
vernam.cs.uwm.edu in /pub/soft-eng/xspread3.0.tar.Z. It also includes
graphing functions.  Information: soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu.

The GNU package OLEO is available in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/oleo-1.6.tar.Z;
it can generate PostScript renditions of spreadsheets.

Also:

Several of the below are part of integrated office-productivity tools which may
also include word-processing, email, conferencing, image processing, and 
drawing/painting, among other features.

Vendor                        Product    Contact Information 
------                        -------    -------------------
Access Technology             20/20      508-655-9191
Informix                      WingZ      800-331-1763
Quality Software Products     Q-Calc/eXclaim    800-628-3999 (CA:213-410-0303) 
Unipress                      Q-Calc     201-985-8000
Uniplex                       Uniplex    214-717-0068, 800-356-8063
Digital			      DECdecision   1-800-DIGITAL
Applix			      Applixware 508-870-0300, 1-800-8APPLIX.
AIS			      XESS	 919-942-7801, info@ais.com
BBN Software Products         BBN/Slate  617-873-5000 slate-offer@bbn.com
Elsid Software Systems	      Ripcam	 613-228-9468
Andrew Consortium	      table	 info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu

SAS by the SAS Institute now has a spreadsheet module; the X version is
available on the current popular RISC platforms.

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Subject:  89)  Where can I get X-based project-management software?

Vendor                        	Product		Contact Information 
------				-------		-------------------
Productivity Solutions		Ultra Planner	617-237-1600
Quality Software Products 	MasterPlan Version, 310-410-0303 sales@qsp.com
Digital Tools, Inc.		AutoPLAN	408-366-6920, 800-755-0065
NASA				COMPASS		404-542-3265,
						service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu
GEC-Marconi Software Systems	GECOMO Plus	703-648-1551
GEC-Marconi Software Systems	SIZE Plus	703-648-1551
TEI, Inc			VUE		408-985-7100
Mantix				Cascade		703-506-8833
Advanced Management Solutions	Schedule Publisher	800-397-6829
Auburn University		??		??
Computer Associates		SuperProject

[thanks to Pete Phillips; 7/92]
[thanks to Atul Chhabra (atul@nynexst.com); 10/92]

Pete Phillips (pete@smtl.demon.co.uk) posts to comp.sources.wanted a    
FAQ on project-management programs.

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Subject:  90)  Where can I get an X-based PostScript previewer?

Ghostscript is distributed by the Free Software Foundation (617-876-3296) and
includes a PostScript interpreter and a library of graphics primitives.
Version 2.6.1(.4) is now available; the major site is prep.ai.mit.edu,
although ftp.cs.wisc.edu is also recommended. [6/93] Version 3.0 will include
a full implementation of PostScript Level 2.

GSPreview (by the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at
Canterbury) is an X user interface (WCL-based) to the Ghostscript 2.4-2.6
interpreter.  The source is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org as
gspreview.2.3.tar.Z. [6/93]

GhostView (by Tim Theisen, tim@cs.wisc.edu) is full-function user interface
for GhostScript. Check ftp.cs.wisc.edu or prep.ai.mit.edu for
/pub/ghostview-1.5.tar.Z [7/93]. There are also several executables available
on ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe for various architectures.

XPsView (by Francois Bourdoncle, bourdoncle@prl.dec.com) is a Motif wrapper
around PsView, which is a X11 DSC Document viewer that can use both XDPS and
GhostScript as the interpreter engine. An early version was an the Alpha
Freeware CD. More recent versions, which include batch translation of
PostScript files into PPM files, are on gatekeeper.dec.com in
/pub/DEC/PRL/psview-1.41.tar.Z.

Also:

ScriptWorks is Harlequin's software package for previewing and printing
PostScript(R) descriptions of text and graphics images; previewers for X are
available. For information call +44-223-872522 or send email to
scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk.

Image Network's Xps supports the full PostScript language and renders in
color, grayscale, or monochrome. Fonts displayed are anti-aliased. Info:
Image Network, +1 415 967 0542.

Digital's dxpsview runs on UWS 2.1 and 2.2.

Sun's pageview runs with the X11/NeWS server. 

Showpage, the PostScript previewer from Adobe Systems, is available from ICS
as part of the Display PostScript System for Sun Solaris 1 (SunOS).  More
information is available from ICS at info@ics.com, or +1 617 621 0060, or Fax
at +1 617 621 9555.

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Subject:  91)  Where can I get an X-based GKS package?

	The latest freely-available XGKS can be obtained from 
xgks-request@unidata.ucar.edu; this is a 2c implementation derived from the 
X11R4 contrib XGKS from IBM and the University of Illinois. The release
is on unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] as pub/xgks.tar.Z. [12/90]
	In addition, Grafpak-GKS is available from Advanced Technology Center
(714-583-9119).
	GKSUL is available from gks@ulowell.edu (ULowell CS department). It is
a 2b implementation which includes drivers for a variety of devices. It can be 
passed an X window ID to use. The package includes both C and Fortran bindings.

[11/90; from dsrand@mitre.org and from stew@hanauma.stanford.edu]

	An XgksWidget is produced by Neil Bowers (neilb@leeds.dcs; 
neilb@dcs.leeds.ac.uk); the latest [10/91] conforms with the new version of 
XGKS (2.4). It is available on ftp.x.org in contrib/xgks-widget.tar.Z. 

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Subject:  92)  Where can I get an X-based GL package?

	 Ygl 2.7 (by Fred Hucht, fred@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE) emulates most of
the two dimensional drawing routines and the window, queue, color (cmap/RGB)
stuff, doublebuffering and more. Ygl is available from
ftp.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE (134.91.141.1), as pub/source/X11/Ygl-2.7.tar.{Z|gz}
[07/94].

	Certain vendors (SGI, IBM) are offering a GL package for X.

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Subject:  93)! Where can I get an X-based PEX package?

The first official release of PEX is with X11R5; fix-22 brings the Sample
Implementation server to version 5.1.

The PEX 5.2 Protocol specification is now available via anonymous ftp to
ftp.x.org, in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEX/. [8/94]


There is now available from the University of Illinois an implementation of
the PEX 4.0 specification called UIPEX. It contains a "near- complete"
implementation of PHiGS and PHiGS PLUS. The file pub/uipex/uipex.tar.Z is on
a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1); the porting platform was an RT running 4.3.
Questions and comments can to go uipex@cs.uiuc.edu.

In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson (rthomson@dsd.es.com) is
available on ftp.x.org as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it
easier to include PEX in Xt-based programs.

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Subject:  94)  Where can I get an X-based TeX or DVI previewer?

	The xtex previewer for TeX files is available from a number of archive 
sites, including uunet; the current version is usually on ftp.cs.colorado.edu
(128.138.204.31) in SeeTeX-2.18.5.tar.Z; pre-converted fonts are also on that 
machine. The distribution all includes "mftobdf" which converts PK, GF, and PXL
fonts to BDF format, where they can then be compiled for use by your local X
server. 
	The xdvi dvi-previewer is fairly comprehensive and easy to use. It is 
also available from a number of sites, including uunet and ftp.x.org; current 
version is patchlevel 16 [12/92].

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Subject:  95)! Where can I get an X-based troff previewer?

xditview, a previewer for device-independent troff, is in contrib in X11R6;
it was a supported client in X11R5 and X11R4. X11R4 also offers the
contributed xtroff; an earlier version of xtroff also appeared on the R3
contributed source.

In addition, the xman client can be used to preview troff documents which use
the -man macros (i.e. man pages).

If psroff is used its output can be viewed with a PostScript previewer.

Groff, a C++-based [tn]roff document formatter from the Free Software
Foundation, includes an X-based document previwer based probably on
xditview.  Groff can put out both dvi and PostScript, so xdvi or GhostView
can be used to preview formatted documents.

In addition:

xproof, an X previewer for ditroff has been contributed by Marvin Solomon
(solomon@cs.wisc.edu); version 3.5 is available on ftp.x.org in
contrib/xproof*. [8/90]

Elan Computer Group (CA: 415-964-2200) produces eroff, a modified troff
implementation, and Elan/Express, an X11 eroff previewer.

SoftQuad (416-239-4801, USA only 800-387-2777; mail@sq.com) offers SoftQuad
Publishing Software, including a substantially- rewritten troff formatter, a
better intermediate language with backwards compatibility, and an X11[R3,R4]
previewer. (This is the package adopted by AT&T's own MIS department, and
used in and re-sold by many parts of AT&T).  [information from Ian Darwin,
SoftQuad (ian@sq.com) 3/90]

Image Network (1-800-TOXROFF; CA: 415-967-0542) offers the Xroff package,
which includes a fine modified troff implementation and a set of X11-based
page previewers. (This is the package OEM'ed by several hardware vendors.)

[mostly courtesy moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)] [2/90]

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Subject:  96)! Where can I get a WYSIWYG interface builder (or other shortcuts)?

	A release of the DIRT interface builder by Richard Hesketh works with
X11R5 and includes some support for the Motif widget set. It generates
WCL-1.1 code. DIRT is known to be outdated. It is available through
comp.sources.x archives.

	The InterViews 3.0.1 C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG interface builder 
called ibuild. ibuild generates code for an InterViews application complete 
with Imakefile and an X-resource file. Documentation is /pub/papers/ibuild.ps 
on interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175).
	Quest Windows's (408-496-1900) ObjectViews C++ package includes an
interactive building tool. 

	Druid (Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development) runs on SPARC 
machines using OSF/Motif 1.0; it is intended eventually to be a full UIMS but 
apparently now has only support for creating the presentation components, for 
which it generates C/UIL code. Info: Singh G, Kok CH, Ngan TY, "Druid: A System
for Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development". Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symp 
on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'90). ACM, NY, 1990, pp:167-177.

	The XF builder (version 2.3.n) is a TCL/Tk builder; versions are on
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. You may subscribe to a mailing list by sending
"sub xf-l <Your name>" to listserv@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de.

	ADEW in the Andrew User Interface System supports WYSIWYG user
interface construction with the full selection of AUIS insets, including text,
rasters, tables, and the usual interactors.  Semantics can be coded in C or in
Ness, the AUIS extension language.

	Camel, a generic IDT for Xt widget sets, is available from 
R.N.Tearle@hertfordshire.ac.uk.

Also:
	In addition, these commercial products (unsorted) are available in 
final or prerelease form [the * following the product name indicates that the 
product is known to allow the designer to specify for each widget whether a 
particular resource is hard-coded or written to an application defaults file,
for at least one form of output]. Some are much more than user-interface tools;
some are full user interface management systems; information on most is not
up-to-date:

Product Name		Look/Feel	Code Output		Vendor

HP Interface		Motif 1.1	C(Xm)			HP/Visual Edge
 Architect/ UIMX	
OPEN LOOK Express	OPEN LOOK	C(Xol+ helper lib)	AT&T /
								Visual Edge
UIMX 2.0 *		Motif 1.1	C(Xm + helper code)	Visual Edge
								514-332-6430
								& distributors
X-Designer 3.2 *	Motif 1.2	C(Xm); C/UIL; C++	Imperial
								Software
								Technology, Ltd
							      (+44 734 587055)
								sales@ist.co.uk
							        US:413-586-4144
XFaceMaker2 (XFM2) * 	Motif 1.0	C;C/script (C-like procedural 
					language);C/UIL
					 			NSL 
							(33 1 43 36 77 50)
							requests@nsl.fr
Builder Xcessory 3.1 *	Motif 1.2	C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]	ICS 
					Ada; and reads GIL	(617-621-0060)
								info@ics.com
Builder Xcessory 2.6 *	Motif 1.1	C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]	DEC
					[VMS; OSF/1]		(1-800-DIGITAL)
iXBUILD			Motif 1.1	C(Xm); C/UIL		iXOS Software
								karl@ixos.uucp
								089/461005-69
TeleUSE 2.1 *		Motif 1.1.5	C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]	Alsys(TeleSoft)
								(619-457-2700)
							gui_info@telesoft.com
							in Germany: in GmbH,
							+49 7531 65022, 
							gvr@in-gmbh.de
ezX 3.2			Motif 1.1	C(Xm +helper lib);C/UIL;Ada
								Sunrise
								(401-847-7868)
							       info@sunrise.com
Snapix			Motif		C/Xm			ADNT
								+33 1 3956 5333
OpenWindows Developers	OPEN LOOK 	GIL [-> C/XView]	Sun
Guide 3.0				GIL [-> C++/XView]
					GIL [-> C/OLIT]
					GIL [-> C/PostScript for TNT]
ExoCode/SXM		Motif		C(Xm)			Expert Object
ExoCode/Plus		OPEN LOOK	XView			708-676-5555
TAE+ 5.3		Xw;Motif	C(Xw,Xm); C/TCL (TAE Control Language,
					like UIL[needs helper library]);
					VAX Fortran; Ada; C++
							Nasa Goddard
							301-286-6034
							Century Computing
							301-953-3330
MOB, XSculptor		Motif; OpenLook	C/Xm,UIL; C/Xol		Kovi
								408-982-3840
PSM			PM, MSW 3.0,	C/UIL			Lancorp
			Motif 1.1.2,Mac				Pty Ltd.
								+61 3 629 4833
								Fax:  629 1296
								(Australia)
MOTIFATION *		Motif 1.1.x|1.2	C(Xm)			PEM Stuttgart
						       +49 (0) 0711/713045
						       +49 (0) 0711/713047 fax
							basien@pem-stuttgart.de
UIB			Open Look/Motif	C++(OI)			ParcPlace 
								+1 303-678-4626
ILOG BUILDER		Motif					ILOG
								1 415 390 9000
								info@ilog.com
XVT-Design		Motif,OL,Windows,&c			XVT
								303-443-4223
								info@xvt.com
Mimex			Motif 1.2	C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]	Kernex
								408-441-7376

								
Look for magazine reviews for more complete comparisons of meta-file formats,
documentation, real ease-of-use, etc; Unix World and Unix Review often carry
articles. See also SunExpert 5/93.

ParcPlace is making freely available its popular ObjectBuilder(tm) and Object
Interface (OI(tm)) products for the Linux operating system.  ObjectBuilder is
a GUI builder written completely in C++, that enables UNIX C++ developers to
apply the principles of object-orientation to the development of user
interfaces. OI, a C++ class library, provides the toolkit foundation for
ObjectBuilder. OI implements the look-and-feel of both Motif 1.2 and OPEN
LOOK. OI is built directly on top of Xlib and is unencumbered by runtime
royalties to any party.  ObjectBuilder and OI are very extensible, actively
facilitating the use of subclassing to create new, reusable, user interface
components.  Sources are on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/OI and
available from ParcPlace (+1 408 481 9090).

Neuron Data (1 415 321-4488) makes Open Interface, a
window-system-independent object toolkit which supports interfaces which are
or resemble (supersets of) Mac, Windows, and Motif and Open Look; the package
includes an interface builder.

The GRAMMI builder supports the development of Ada/X applications using its
own set of objects which have Motif look and feel.  GRAMMI is written in Ada
and generates Ada specs and stub bodies.  Call 1-800-877-1815 or send mail to
info_server@evb.com with subject "send grammi" [without quotes].

In addition, these non-WYSIWYG but related products may help for goals of
rapid prototyping of the application interface:

WCL: the Widget Creation Library. Basically describes the widget hierarchy
and actions in a resources file; available from fine archive servers
everywhere, including devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.1.143) in pub/. Wcl
provides a very thin layer over Xt without any internal tweaking. Version 2.6
is in ftp.x.org:~ftp/contrib/devel_tools/Wcl-2.6.tar.Z [8/94]. (A tutorial on
WCL is available by telnet'ing to techinfo.mit.edu and using "search
iap292".)

TCL/TK: TK is a Motif-like object set for use with the TCL scripting
language. There is also a package tclMotif on ftp.x.org which may be used to
add TCL scripting to Motif programs; version 1.2 was released 6/94.

WAFE: Wafe is a package that implements a symbolic interface to the Athena
widgets (X11R5) and OSF/Motif.  A typical Wafe application consists of two
parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program which runs typically as
a separate process. The application program can be implemented in an
arbitrary programming language and talks to the front-end via stdio.  Since
Wafe (the front-end) was developed using the extensible TCL shell, an
application program can dynamically submit requests to the front-end to build
up the graphical user interface; the application can also down-load
application specific procedures into the front-end, which can be executed
without interaction with the application program.  Wafe 1.0 is available from
ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/X11/wafe/wafe-1.0.tar.gz [7/94].

XGEN: a scripting language which can be used to prototype Motif environments;
available on ftp.x.org.

WINTERP: an Xlisp-based Motif toolkit (by Niels Mayer) allows for rapid
prototyping and interpretive programming. Its interactive application
development and delivery environment features a high-level object-oriented
interface to the OSF/Motif Widgets and Xtoolkit, a high-level object-oriented
2.5D graphics/animation widget based on Xtango's path-transition animation
paradigm, and facilities for communicating with other Unix processes and
data.  WINTERP's interpreter is "serverized" so that other applications can
communicate with WINTERP-based applications via unix domain sockets, or
optionally, through internet domain sockets. WINTERP's built-in interpreter
is based on XLISP-PLUS, which is a small, fast, portable, C-implemented
interpreter providing a subset of Common-Lisp functionality and a
Smalltalk-inspired object system.  A major new release, WINTERP 2.02, is on
the X11R6 contrib tapes; version 2.03 [7/94] is on ftp.x.org in
/contrib/devel_tools. Info:  winterp-source@netcom.com. See also
http://www.eit.com/software/winterp/winterp.html

The Serpent UIMS permits the building of user-interfaces without specific
knowledge of coding but with an understanding of attributes being set on a
particular [Motif] widget.  Beta Release 1.2 is available from
ftp.sei.cmu.edu (128.237.1.13) and can be found in /pub/serpent.  Serpent is
also available on ftp.x.org (18.24.0.11) in /contrib/serpent. Email questions
can go to serpent@sei.cmu.edu. A commercial version of Serpent is available
as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228.

Garnet is a Common Lisp-based GUI toolkit. Information is available from
garnet@cs.cmu.edu.

MetaCard is a hypertext/Rapid Application Development environment similar to
Apple/Claris Corporation's HyperCard (info@metacard.com). MetaCard is
available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or
128.138.213.21. (Mailing list: listserv@grot.starconn.com).

Articles comparing these tools include:
	UnixWorld 5/92; SunWorld 12/92; LAN Computing 12/92; SunExpert 5/93.

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David B. Lewis 					faq%craft@uunet.uu.net

		"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday 

-- 
David B. Lewis			Temporarily at but not speaking for ICS
day: dbl@ics.com		evening: dbl%craft@uunet.uu.net

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Archive-name: x-faq/part5
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

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Subject:  97)  Where can I find X tools callable from shell scripts?
I want to have a shell script pop up menus and yes/no dialog boxes if the user 
is running X.

	Several tools in the R3 contrib/ area were developed to satisfy these
needs: yorn pops up a yes/no box, xmessage displays a string, etc. There are
several versions of these tools; few, if any, have made it to the R4 contrib/ 
area, though they may still be available on various archive sites.
	XScript, a collection of X shell scripts, is on csc.canberra.edu.au 
under /pub/motif/xscript and also on ftp.x.org; it includes several stand-alone
X applications which can be embedded in shell scripts. XScript requires 
tclMotif 1.0 or later.
	In addition, Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) has posted the xmenu
package to comp.sources.x ("v08i008: xmenu") for 1-of-n choices.  [7/90]
	Two versions of XPrompt have been posted to comp.sources.x, the latter
being an unauthorized rewrite. [R. Forsman (thoth@reef.cis.ufl.edu), 1/91]
	There is a version of XMenu available from comp.sources.x; it is
being worked on and will likely be re-released.
	xp-1.1.tar.Z, xpick-1.0.tar.Z and xzap-1.0.tar.Z on ftp.x.org's 
contrib/ are tools by Gerry.Tomlinson@newcastle.ac.UK which act as X versions
of the simple display and choice-making tools in K&P. [4/92]
	xtpanel lets the user build a panel containing interactive objects such
as buttons, sliders, text fields, etc., either from the command line or using a
simple scripting language. It is available for anonymous ftp from 
hanauma.Stanford.EDU (36.51.0.16) as pub/X/xtpanel-3.01.tar.Z and may also be 
found in the alt.sources archives.

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Subject:  98)  Where can I get an X-based debugger?

	xdbx, an X interface to the dbx debugger, is available via ftp from 
ftp.x.org. The current [1/91] version is 2.1 patchlevel 2.
	An X interface to gdb called xxgdb is more like xdbx 2.1.2. It is part 
of comp.sources.x volume 11 [2/91]; xxgdb-1.06.tar.Z is on ftp.x.org.
	mxgdb is a Motif interface to gdb by Jim Tsillas 
(jtsillas@proteon.com); version 1.2 was released 11/93.
	UPS is a source-level debugger which runs under the X11 (and SunView)
window systems on Sun, DEC, and Linux platforms. It is available from ftp.x.org 
(18.24.0.11) as contrib/ups-2.45.tar.Z (also ups-2.45-to-2.45.2.patch.Z)
and unix.hensa.ac.uk (129.12.21.7) in /pub/misc/unix/ups (or try mail to 
archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk). [10/92] Unofficial fixes by Rod Armstrong 
(rod@sj.ate.slb.com) are on unix.hensa.ac.uk in 
/misc/unix/ups/contrib/rod@sj.ate.slb.com.

Also:
	MIPS produces a highly-customizable (WCL-based) Visual Debugger.
	You should be able to use Sun's dbxtool with its X11/NeWS server.
	The CodeCenter (617-498-3000) source-level debugger, available on most
major platforms, includes an X-based interface.
	AT&T offers the eXamine Graphical Interface, an X11 interface to dbx
and C++ dbx for Sun3 and Sun4 and sdb and sdb++ for 386 and 3B2 platforms. Call
1-508-960-1997 or contact examine@mvuxi.att.com for more information.
        Solbourne (+1 303-678-4626) offers PDB, its X-based debugger for C, C++
and Fortran.  PDB uses the OI toolkit and runs in either Open Look or Motif 
mode. 
	SCO (info@sco.com) offers dbXtra as part of several development 
systems.
        Lucid's Energize Programming System, a tightly integrated development
environment for C and C++ programs, incorporates a graphical user interface on
top of an extended version of gdb. Info:  lucid-info@lucid.com, or
(800) 223-9322.

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Subject:  99)! How can I "tee" an X program identically to several displays? 

There are several protocol multiplexer tools which provide for the
simultaneous display of X clients on any number of machines:

XMX (an X Protocol Multiplexor) is available from wilma.cs.brown.edu
(128.148.33.66) as pub/xmx.tar.Z It works independently of the server and
does not affect the application being shared; it was developed for use in the
electronic classroom. An update is expected soon [5/93].

XTV is a conference program which can be used to duplicate the "chalkboard"
on several displays. Release 1 is available on the X11R5 contrib tapes; a
more recent version is on ftp.cs.odu.edu as pub/wahab/XTV.r2.tar.Z.

SHX from Michael Altenhofen of Digital Equipment GmbH CEC Karlsruhe is a
"WYSIWIS" (What You See Is What I See) package in the context of a
computer-based learning/training tool to provide online help from remote
tutors but is also useful for general window sharing.  SHX was last found on
found on ftp.x.org.

Modifications to SHX for color mapping and private color allocation by Mark
J. Handley (M.Handley@cs.ucl.ac.uk) are on cs.ucl.ac.uk in
car/shX.car.tar.Z.

XTrap is implemented as a server/library extension and can be used to record
and then replay an x session. It is available as
ftp.x.org:/contrib/XTrapV33_X11R5.tar.Z.

The XTEST and RECORD extensions in R6 provide input synthesis and protocol
recording respectively.  Taken together, they provide functionality similar
to XTrap.

wscrawl can be used as a "multi-person paint program". It's available on
sax.stanford.edu as wscrawl.shar.Z. Binaries are on doppler.ncsc.org in
pub/wscrawl.

Shdr implements a simple shared whiteboard, without a chalk-passing
mechanism. It's available on parcftp.xerox.com as pub/europarc/shdr.tar.Z.

SketchPad 1.0 (3/93) is a distributed interactive graphical editor
particularly designed for sketching. Sources have been posted to alt.sources
and are available from ftp.igd.fhg.de (192.44.32.1) in
~ftp/incoming/sketchpad.

The NESTOR project is described in "Upgrading A Window System For Tutoring
Functions", Michael Altenhofen et al., the proceedings of the EXUG Conference
11/90.

xmove actually moves a client from one server to another; it is on
ftp.cs.columbia.edu in /pub/xmove.

Also of use:

Hewlett-Packard Co. has a commercial product, "HP SharedX" which works under
HP-UX currently on their 300, 400, and 700 series workstations and their HP
700/RX X Stations.  Machines receiving shared windows can be any X server.
HP SharedX consists of a server extensions and a Motif based user interface
process.  Contact your local HP sales rep. for more information.

IBM offers a commercial product.

Sun offers multi-user confering software called ShowMe.

InSoft (Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, 717-730-9501) offers multi-user conferencing
software called Communique. Version 3.0 is available on Sun and HP
platforms.

Vartalaap is a multiparty multimedia Conferencing System that works over Unix
sockets; the interfaceis based on XView.  It's available at ftp.x.org under
contrib/vartalaap.tar.Z.

Collage is a synchronous collaborative data analysis tool for use over the
Internet.  Features include a shared whiteboard, screen capture/sharing, a
shared text editor, and data-analysis tools.  Sources are on
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (141.142.20.50) in /UNIX/XCollage/Collage1.3.  

[Thanks in part to scott@spectra.com (Tim Scott), 5/91, and to Peter Cigehn
(peter@lulea.trab.se), 8/92 ]

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Subject: 100)! Can I use C++ with X11? Motif? XView?

	The X11R4 and later header files are compatible with C++. The Motif
1.1 header files are usable as is inside extern "C" {...}. However, the
definition of String in Intrinsic.h can conflict with the libg++ or other
String class and needs to be worked around.

	Some other projects which can help:

	WWL, a set of C++ classes by Jean-Daniel Fekete to wrap X Toolkit 
widgets, available via anonymous FTP from ftp.x.org as contrib/WWL-1.2.tar.Z 
[7/92] or lri.lri.fr (129.175.15.1) as pub/WWL-1.2.tar.Z.  It works by 
building a set of C++ classes in parallel to the class tree of the widgets.
	The C++ InterViews toolkit is obtainable via anonymous FTP from 
interviews.stanford.edu. InterViews uses a box/glue model similar to that of 
TeX for constructing user interfaces and supports multiple looks on the user 
interfaces. Some of its sample applications include a WYSIWIG document editor 
(doc), a MacDraw-like drawing program (idraw) and an interface builder 
(ibuild).
	THINGS,  a class library written at the Rome Air Force Base by the 
Strategic Air Command, available as freeware on archive sites.

	Motif++ is a public-domain library that defines C++ class wrappers
for Motif 1.1 and 1.2; it adds an "application" class for, e.g., initializing
X, and also integrates WCL and the Xbae widget set. This work was developed
by Ronald van Loon <rvloon@motif.xs4all.nl> based on X++, a set of bindings
done by the University of Lowell Graphics Research Laboratory. The current
sources are available from decuac.dec.com (192.5.214.1) in
/pub/X11/motif++.28.jul.93.tar.gz; in the UK check src.doc.ic.ac.uk. Send to 
motif++-request@motif.xs4all.nl to be added to the mailing list.
	Xm++ is a user interface framework for C++ using the Motif and Athena
toolkits.  Source is on ftp.x.org as contrib/Xm++.0.52.tar.Z; or email to 
xmplus@ani.univie.ac.at.
	The Theseus++ User Interface Toolkit Release 2.5.2 is a copylefted
C++ user-interface toolkit for X and Motif. Sources are on
archimedes.igd.fhg.de in /pub/Theseus++/theseus++-2.5.2.
	The source code examples for Doug Young's "Object-Oriented Programming 
with C++ and OSF/Motif" [ISBN 0-13-630252-1] do not include "widget wrappers" 
but do include a set of classes that encapsulates higher-level facilities 
commonly needed by Motif- or other Xt-based applications; check ftp.x.org in
~ftp/contrib/young.c++.tar.Z.
	Rogue Wave offers "View.h++" for C++ programmers using Motif; info:
1-800-487-3217 or +1 503 754 2311.
	A product called "Commonview" by Glockenspiel Ltd, Ireland (??) 
apparently is a C++-based toolkit for multiple window systems, including PM,
Windows, and X/Motif.
	Xv++ is sold by Qualix (415-572-0200; fax -1300); it implements an 
interface from the GIL files that Sun's OpenWindows Developers Guide 3.0 
produces to Xview wrapper classes in C++.
	The Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library from Bristol 
(info@bristol.com) is a GUI class library for Windows, Mac, and Motif 
applications.
	UIT is a set of C++ classes embedding the XView toolkit; it is intended
for use with Sun's OpenWindows Developers Guide 3.0 builder tool. Sources are 
on ftp.x.org as UIT.tar.Z. Version 2 was released 5/28/92.
	Also of likely use is ObjectCenter (Saber-C++). And a reasonable
alternative to all of the above is ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) Object 
Interface.

[Thanks to Douglas S. Rand (dsrand@mitre.org) and George Wu (gwu@tcs.com);2/91]

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Subject: 101)  Where can I obtain alternate language bindings to X/Xt/Motif?

	Versions of the CLX Lisp bindings are part of the X11 core source 
distributions. A version of CLX is on the R5 tape [10/91]; version 5.0.2 [9/92]
is on ftp.x.org in /contrib/CLX.R5.02.tar.Z.

	The SAIC Ada-X11 bindings are through anonymous ftp in /pub from
stars.rosslyn.unisys.com (128.126.164.2) [perhaps
falcon.stars.ballston.paramax.com (129.204.6.253)?]
	There is an X/Ada study team sponsored by NASA JSC, which apparently is
working out bindings. Information: xada@ghg.hou.tx.us.
	GNU SmallTalk has a beta native SmallTalk binding to X called STIX (by
Steven.Byrne@Eng.Sun.COM). It is still in its beginning stages, and 
documentation is sparse outside the SmallTalk code itself. The sources are 
available as /pub/gnu/smalltalk-1.1.1.tar.Z on prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38) or 
ugle.unit.no (129.241.1.97).
	Prolog bindings (called "XWIP") written by Ted Kim at UCLA while
supported in part by DARPA are available by anonymous FTP from
ftp.x.org:contrib/xwip.tar.Z or ftp.cs.ucla.edu:pub/xwip.tar.Z.
These prolog language bindings depend on having a Quintus-type foreign function
interface in your prolog. The developer has gotten it to work with Quintus and 
SICStus prolog. Inquiries should go to xwip@cs.ucla.edu. [3/90]
	Scheme bindings to Xlib, OSF/Motif, and Xaw are part of the Elk
distribution; version 1.5a on ftp.x.org obsoletes the version on the R5 contrib
tape. 
	TCL bindings to Motif 1.[12] by Jan Newmarch 
(jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au) are on csc.canberra.edu.au and ftp.x.org. 
Version 0.8 became available 11/93.
	x-scm, a bolt-on accessory for Aubrey Jaffer's "scm" Scheme interpreter
that provides an interface to Xlib, Motif, and OpenLook, is now available via 
FTP from altdorf.ai.mit.edu:archive/scm/xscm1.05.tar.Z and 
nexus.yorku.ca:pub/scheme/new/xscm1.05.tar.Z.

	Poplog V14.2 is offered by Integral Solutions Ltd. (Phone +44 (0)256
882028; Fax +44 (0)256 882182; Email isl@integ.uucp); it is an integrated
programming environment consisting of the programming languages Pop-11,
Prolog, Standard ML, and Lisp which are compiled to machine code via a common
virtual machine. Pop-11 provides an interface to the X Toolkit which can be
accessed from all other Poplog languages. The OLIT, Motif, and Athena widget
sets are supported, in addition to the custom Poplog (Xpw) widget set.
High-level Pop-11 libraries allow graph drawing, turtle graphics, and the
simple creation of basic button/menu based interfaces.

	Ada bindings to Motif, explicitly, will eventually be made available by
the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, probably through the normal electronic
means.  Advance information can be obtained from dsouleles@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov,
who may respond as time permits.
	AdaMotif is a complete binding to X and Motif for the Ada language, for
many common systems; it is based in part upon the SAIC/Unisys bindings and also
includes a UIL to Ada translator. Info: Systems Engineering Research 
Corporation, 1-800-Ada-SERC (well!serc@apple.com).

	Also: the X Consortium, although not involved in producing Ada
bindings for X, maintains a partial listing of people involved in X and Ada;
information is available from Donna Converse, converse@x.org.

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Subject: 102)  TOPIC: BUILDING THE X DISTRIBUTION [topic needs updating to R6]
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Subject: 103)  What's a good source of information on configuring the X build?

	This FAQ includes information on a number of "gotchas" that can bite 
you on particular system. However, the best source of general information on 
building the X11 release is found in the Release Notes. The file is bundled 
separately from the rest of the release, so if it's become separated from your 
sources you can FTP another copy separately: the file RELNOTES.[ms,PS,TXT] at 
the top of the distribution. The file RELNOTES is also available from the 
xstuff mail server.
	In addition, O'Reilly & Associates' Volume 8 on X Administration
includes information on configuring and building X.

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Subject: 104)  Why doesn't my Sun with a cg6 work with R5?

	Apparently gcc is the problem; it seems to produce fine code for all
Sun displays except for the cgsix. The new sunGX.o distributed with fix-07 
may fix the problem (note: not known to work on Solaris).

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Subject: 105)  Why doesn't my Sun with SunOS 4.1 know about _dlsym, etc.?

	If you get errors with _dlsym _dlopen _dlclose undefined, link with 
libdl.a.  Add "-ldl" to your and eventually to your site.def.  You may want to 
surround it with "-Bstatic -ldl -Bdynamic" if you add it to the EXTRA_LIBRARIES
variable, since "syslibs" get added after EXTRA_LIBRARIES on the eventual 
compilation command; otherwise you may not have a shared libdl.  (Or compile 
the stubs shared.)

[thanks to Joe Backo (joe.backo@East.Sun.COM), 12/91]

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Subject: 106)  What is this "_get_wmShellWidgetClass undefined" error?

	In SunOS 4.1.2 Sun fixed a shared-library bug in ld which conflicts
with the way X builds the shared Xmu library, causing these symbols, notably, 
to be undefined when building some X11 clients on SunOS 4.1.[23]: 
	_get_wmShellWidgetClass
	_get_applicationShellWidgetClass
Compiling "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic" is overkill; be sure to set
OSTeenyVersion correctly in the config/sun.cf file and rebuild X11R5.

To solve the problem if you are using OpenWindows 3.0 (X11R4-based Xt), please 
contact your local Sun office and request the following patches:

Patch i.d.      Description
100512-02       4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
100573-03       4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols when using
                        shared libXmu

[Greg Earle, earle@Sun.COM; 7/92] 

A source patch for use with the X11R4 libraries was developed by Conrad 
Kimball (cek@sdc.boeing.com); it retrofits into R4 some fixes made in R5 to
get around this problem. The patch is on ftp.x.org in [1/93]
	contrib/X11R4_sunos4.1.2_patch_version3.Z

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Subject: 107)  What's this problem with undefined _X symbols on SunOS 4.1.3?

        Make sure to set the OSTeenyVersion in the mit/config/sun.cf file
if you see that vast numbers of Xlib functions are undefined in your X11R5 
build:

  >cc -o bmtoa bmtoa.o -O -pipe  -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu -L/work1/X11R5/lib
  >ld: Undefined symbol
  >   _XGetVisualInfo
  >   _XFree
	...

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Subject: 108)  Why does cc get used when I build X11R5 with gcc?

	When X11R5 was written gcc (version 1.X) did not support shared 
libraries. Those parts requiring shared libraries are compiled with cc, those 
that don't are compiled with gcc.
  
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Subject: 109)  What are these I/O errors running X built with gcc?
When I try to run xinit or the Xsun server I get the error 
	"Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket. 
	Fatal server bug! no screens found."

	Running the gcc fixincludes script apparently didn't work. You can do 
this simple test:

	#include <sys/ioctl.h>
	SIOCGIFCONF

Run that through cc -E and gcc -E.  The last line of output is the piece of 
interest; it should be identical (modulo irrelevant differences like 
whitespace).  If the gcc version has 'x' where the cc version has 'i', your 
fixincludes run didn't work for some reason or other; go back to your gcc
sources and run `fixincludes`; then rebuild the X distribution. If they are 
identical, try running a make clean in mit/server and rebuilding, just to make 
sure everything gets compiled with the proper include files.  

[courtesy der Mouse, mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU; 9/90]

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Subject: 110)  What are these problems compiling the X server on SunOS 4.1.1?
The file <sundev/cg6reg.h> isn't being found.

	Sun omitted <sundev/cg6reg.h> from SunOS 4.1.1. Remove the #include 
from sunCG6C.c and replace it with the line 
	#define CG6_VADDR_COLOR   0x70016000
The file has changed from earlier versions of SunOS and should not be copied 
from another distribution.

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Subject: 111)  Can OW 3.0 OLIT programs run with R5 Xt? (_XtQString undefined)

This is a bug in the OLIT.  _XtQString was an external symbol that existed in
X11R4 (upon which OW 3.0's libXt is based).  It wasn't documented and was
removed in X11R5 (the Consoritum's guarantee of upward compatibility between
the R4 and R5 libraries only applied to the documented interface).

A workaround is to temporarily set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the X11R4
or OpenWindows Xt library that you linked the program against.

[10/92; from Barry Margolin (barmar@think.com); 3/93 from Jeff Francis 
(jpf@heliocentric.com)]

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Subject: 112)  How do I get around the SunOS 4.1 security hole?

	There is a security problem with certain R4 clients (xterm and xload)
running under SunOS 4.1 that have been installed setuid root and are using 
shared libraries; to avoid the problem, do one of these:
	1) make the program non-setuid. You should consult your system
administrator concerning protection of resources (e.g. ptys and /dev/kmem) used
by these programs, to make sure that you do not create additional security 
problems at your site.
	2) relink the programs statically (using -Bstatic).
	3) install the libraries before linking and link with absolute paths
to the libraries.

[from rws@x.org (Bob Scheifler), 12/90]

Newer versions  of xterm (R5/R6) do this automatically by rebuilding xterm
against the newly-installed libraries when xterm is being installed; this
prevents an suid program from being built with libraries specified
relatively. Note that this may cause an inconvenience when doing the
installation from NFS-mounted disks.  Xload has been rewritten to avoid the
problem.

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Subject: 113)  How do I get around the frame-buffer security hole?

	On many systems the frame-buffer is unsecured by default; this permits 
anyone who can log into your workstation to peek at your windowing session by 
accessing the frame-buffer directly, or, as less of a privacy issue but perhaps
more annoying, to [accidentally] start up a second X session on your console 
display. Check the man page for fbtab(5).

[Thanks to Art Mulder (art@cs.ualberta.ca); 2/93.]

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Subject: 114)  TOPIC: BUILDING X PROGRAMS 
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Subject: 115)  What is Imake?

	Imake is not a replacement for the make program; instead, it is a
makefile-generator that takes advantages of the include-file and macro-
processing capabilities of the C preprocessor cpp to generate makefiles 
suitable for building software on a particular system. Although it is not 
specific to X, the X release uses it to help solve a number of the 
configuration issues that arise in making such a large system widely portable.
	Imake has a fairly steep learning curve, in part because the process by
which the system-specific configuration files, system-independent configuration
files, and individual Imakefiles are melded to produce a Makefile is not 
obvious.
	There have been several different versions of imake; the R3, R4, R5
and R6 versions are different.

	You can obtain information on imake from these sources:
	- - the release notes and imake man page include information on using
Imake to build X
	- The R6 file xc/config/cf/README contains a list of imake variables
	- the R4 and R5 release notes and imake man page include information on
using Imake to build X
	- the R4 and R5 file mit/config/README also contains useful information
	- on the R4 tapes, contrib/doc/imake/imake.tex is Mark Moraes' R3/R4
guide to imake.
	- the R5 mit/doc/config/usenixws/paper.ms contains a paper by Jim
Fulton on an early version of Imake

	- Paul DuBois (dubois@primate.wisc.edu) has written a useful 
explanation of how Imake works and how to use it in configuring X for non-
supported systems; the document is available from ftp.primate.wisc.edu
in the directory ~ftp/pub/imake-stuff; look for config-X11R4.ms (troff) and 
config-X11R4.ps (PostScript). Some supplemental appendices are nearby. 
[7/91: document version is now 1.06] These imake papers are available by email;
mail a message body of "send imake-stuff help" to almanac@primate.wisc.edu.
They are also available by gopher to gopher.primate.wisc.edu under "Primate 
Center Software Archives".
	- see "System Administration - Imake: Friend or Foe?" by Dinah McNutt
in the November 1991 issue of SunExpert.
	- German readers should expect in June 1992 an article "Das Meta-Make 
/ I make, you make / Schwerelos" by Rainer Klute in "iX 
Multiuser-Multitasking-Magazin", directed at application programmers needing to
write Imakefiles. An English-language derivative of this article is in The
X Journal, issue 2:1.
	- The O'Reilly X Resource issue #2 contains Paul Davey's article on
demystifying Imake.
	- Alain Brossard's working document full of tips on Imake is in 
sasun1.epfl.ch:pub/imakefile.1.Z.
	- O'Reilly has published (7/93) "Software Portability with imake" by
Paul DuBois; ISBN 1-56592-055-4. The book's electronic examples and
additional software are on ftp.primate.wisc.edu in pub/imake-book;
imake.tar.Z is a stand-alone imake installation.

[1/91;12/91;5/92;8/92;7/93]

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Subject: 116)  Where can I get imake?

	Versions are distributed with the R4, R5, and R6 releases. An earlier 
version is distributed with the X11R3 release; some third-party toolkits 
redistribute versions of imake along with their own implementations of the 
template and configuration files. There are no real standards for such 
configuration files, although most *current* contributed software expects the 
templates distributed with X11R5.
	ftp.x.org contains the R5 distribution unpacked, so you can pick up 
imake without picking up the entire distribution.
	A stand-alone version of Imake, but one stemming from X11R5, is in
ftp.germany.eu.net:pub/X11/misc/imake/imake-pure.tar.Z (192.76.144.75).
	A stand-alone version of Imake, but one stemming from X11R5, is in
ftp.primate.wisc.edu:pub/imake-book/imake.tar.Z.

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Subject: 117)  I have a program with an Imakefile but no Makefile. What to do?

	If you have R4 or later installed on your system, run "xmkmf". This
is a script which runs imake for you with the correct arguments. The output
is a Makefile configured for your system and based on the Imakefile.  Then
run make, which will use that new Makefile to compile the program.

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Subject: 118)  Why can't I link to the Xlib shape routines?
When I try to compile certain programs, I get the following link error:
	Undefined:
	_XShapeQueryExtension
	_XShapeCombineMask

	These routines are actually part of the Shape Extension to X (SHAPE)
which was introduced in the X11R4 distribution and allows non-rectangular
windows.  Like the other sample server extensions, the shape extension will 
only run on a server which supports it.  Pre-X11R4 servers, as well as many 
vendor-supplied servers, do not support the shape extension, in which case 
they will display rectangular windows anyway.

	In order to use the shape extension, you must link to the library 
libXext.a.  In the X11R4 distribution, this library and the associated includes
will be in the mit/extensions directory.  If you do not have these files, do 
not despair:  many freeware programs which use the shape extension can also be 
compiled without it by removing the -DSHAPE define from the Makefile; you can
probably do this and compile successfully against your older vendor-supplied X 
libraries.

[from John B. Melby, melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet.uu.net, 3/91]

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Subject: 119)  What are these problems with "_XtInherit not found" on the Sun?
When I link a X program that I wrote on a SunOS 4.0.3 or 4.1 machine I get the 
error "ld.so: symbol not found _XtInherit".

	What you are seeing is a side-effect of a kludge in the R4 libXt.a to 
get Sun shared libraries working.  Apparently, you can't share a function that 
is both called and compared, as _XtInherit is. This was handled by putting 
_XtInherit in the same file as a function that is always used, thereby 
guaranteeing that it would be loaded -- that is, in Initialize.c, where 
XtToolkitInitialize() and XtInitialize() reside. These routines would normally
be called.

	You are probably seeing this error because your program is not a normal
Xt-based program and does not call XtToolkitInitialize() anywhere. 
	1) it may be a program that uses Xt functions but never opens a 
connection to the X server.  [OSF/Motif's 1.1.0 UIL had this problem; it called
XtMalloc() and other Xt functions.] The solution is to add the call to your 
program; the function does not have to be executed, just linked in.
	2) alternatively, your program doesn't need any Xt functions and is
correct in not calling XtToolkitInitialize() -- it may be an Xlib or XView 
program. In this case, you can remove -lXt from your link command. 

	It should not be necessary to link the shared libraries statically,
although this will certainly solve the problem.
	
[from Jordan Hayes (now jordan@MooreNet.COM) and Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be); 
11/90]

You may also see this error compiling X11R5 programs on a SunOS 4.1.3 machine;
be sure to set OSTeenyVersion to 3 in the config/sun.cf file.

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Subject: 120)  TOPIC: PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES
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Subject: 121)  Why doesn't my program get the keystrokes I select for (sic)?

	The window manager controls how the input focus is transferred from one
window to another.  In order to get keystrokes, your program must ask the
window manager for the input focus.  To do this, you must set up what are
called "hints" for the window manager.  If your applications is Xlib-based, you
can use something like the following:

        XWMHints wmhints;
        ...
        wmhints.flags = InputHint;
        wmhints.input = True;
        XSetWMHints(dpy, window, &wmhints)

If your application is based on the Xt Intrinsics, you can set the XtNinput 
resource to be True (as you probably want to in any case); if you don't have
source, you can start up the application with the resource '*input:True'.

Certain window managers, notably dxwm and olwm, are very picky about having 
this done. 

	If you are using Sun's OpenWindows olwm, you can also add this resource
to your defaults file to use clients that aren't ICCCM-compliant.
	OpenWindows.FocusLenience:       true

[mostly courtesy Dave Lemke of NCD and Stuart Marks of Sun]

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Subject: 122)  How do I deiconify a window?

To de-iconify a window, map it with XMapWindow().  To iconify a window, use 
XIconifyWindow().

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Subject: 123)  How do I figure out what window manager is running?

	You can't reliably tell; whatever mechanism you could use could be
spoofed in any case. 
	For most cases, you shouldn't care which window manager is running, so 
long as you do things in an ICCCM-conformant manner. There are some cases in 
which particular window managers are known to do things wrong; checking for
particular hints placed on the window by the window manager so that you can 
sidestep the problem may be appropriate in these cases. Alternatively, it may 
be appropriate to determine which window manager is running in order to take
advantage of specific *added* features (such as olwm's push-pin menus) in order
to give your program *added* functionality. Beware of usurping the window 
manager's functions by providing that functionality even when it is missing;
this surely leads to future compatibility problems.

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Subject: 124)  Is there a skeleton X program available?
	
	There is no general framework such as the TransSkel program for the 
Macintosh which handles lots of the odds and ends and overhead of development 
under a window system and which can be used as a platform for additional 
development. In X, the problem is typically solved by using an interactive 
application builder tool or by using cut&paste on existing X applications. Good
applications which you might look to manipulate when you want to "test just 
this one little thing" include contrib/clients/xskel, a simple R4 program that 
puts up a window and allows sketching in it and offers a starting point for
quick hacks, the Xaw examples in the examples/ directory in the R3 and R4 
distributions, and the Xlib "Hello World" example in the R3 doc/HelloWorld and 
R4 doc/tutorials/HelloWorld; an updated version of this program which uses R4 
Xlib calls and current ICCCM conventions was posted in 2/90 to comp.windows.x  
by Glenn Widener of Tektronix. 	[3/90]

	In addition, a sample Xt program (for Xaw or Xm) by Rainer Klute 
showing how to open multiple displays and how to catch a broken display 
connection is available on ftp.x.org in contrib/mdisp.tar.Z. [4/92] 
	A sample multi-display Xt/Xaw program by Oliver Jones is on ftp.x.org
in contrib/MultiUserVote.tar.Z. (See also his article in The X Resource, Issue 
3, "Multi-User Application Software Using Xt".)

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Subject: 125)  Why does XtGetValues not work for me (sic)?

	The XtGetValues interface for retrieving resources from a widget is
sensitive to the type of variable. Your code may be doing something like this:
	{
	Arg args[3];
	int i;
	int sensitive;		/* oops; wrong data type */
	i=0;
	XtSetArg (args[i], XtNsensitive, &sensitive); i++;
	XtGetValues(widget, args, i );
	...
	}

But XtNsensitive is a Boolean, which on most machines is a single byte; 
declaring the variable "sensitive" as Boolean works properly. This problem 
comes up often when using particular toolkits that redefine the Xt types 
Dimension and Position; code that assumes they are int will have similar 
problems if those types are actually short. In general: you are safe if you
use the actual type of the resource, as it appears in the widget's man page.
[11/90]

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Subject: 126)  Why don't XtConfigureWidget/XtResizeWidget/XtMoveWidget work?

	You're probably trying to use these functions from application code.
They should be used only internally to widgets; these functions are for a
parent Composite widget to change the geometry of its children.  An
application which calls XtMoveWidget, for example, effectively defeats
geometry negotiation and the Composite parent's internal state (if any) will
no longer be correct. (The Xt specification goes into more detail.)
	The only way for your application to request a geometry change for a
widget is to issue an XtSetValues call setting some of the geometry
resources.  Although this call will result in the widget-internal functions'
being called, your application code must use the standard XtSetValues
interface or risk the widgets' data becoming corrupted.
	Note that functions defined in <X11/IntrinsicP.h>, as these are, are
typically reserved for use by widgets.
	Other promising functions, XtMakeGeometryRequest() and
XtMakeResizeRequest(), are also for use only by widgets, in this case by a
child to request a change from its parent.
	The Xlib calls XMoveWindow() and XResizeWindow() should similarly be 
avoided; they shouldn't be used to change XtNx, XtNy, XtNwidth, or XtNheight.

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Subject: 127)  Why isn't there an XtReparentWidget call like XReparentWindow?

	Although there are various details of the current implementation of
the Xt internals which make reparenting difficult, the major reason that no
such call exists is that it remains undefined what the set of resources for
the "new" widget should be. Resources are typically set based on the location
in the instance hierarchy; what resources should change if the instance moves?
What should happen to the widget's children? And by the time such semantics are
defined, there would probably be little advantage over destroying the old 
widget and creating a new widget in the correct location with the desired 
resources, as setting the resources correctly is the majority of work in 
creating a new widget. 

	Note that reparenting is possible in the OI toolkit.

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Subject: 128)  I'm writing a widget and can't use a float as a resource value.

Float resources are not portable; the size of the value may be larger than
the size of an XtPointer. Try using a pointer to a float instead; the Xaw
Scrollbar float resources are handled in this way. 

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Subject: 129)  Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 XtDestroyWidget()?!

Yes. This is the "unofficial" fix-19 for the X11R4 Destroy.c:

*** Destroy.c.1.37	Thu Jul 11 15:41:25 1991
--- lib/Xt/Destroy.c	Thu Jul 11 15:42:23 1991
***************
*** 1,4 ****
--- 1,5 ----
  /* $XConsortium: Destroy.c,v 1.37 90/09/28 10:21:32 swick Exp $ */
+ /* Plus unofficial patches in revisions 1.40 and 1.41 */
  
  /***********************************************************
  Copyright 1987, 1988 by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts,
***************
*** 221,239 ****
       */
  
      int i = 0;
!     DestroyRec* dr = app->destroy_list;
      while (i < app->destroy_count) {
  	if (dr->dispatch_level >= dispatch_level)  {
  	    Widget w = dr->widget;
  	    if (--app->destroy_count)
  		bcopy( (char*)(dr+1), (char*)dr,
! 		       app->destroy_count*sizeof(DestroyRec)
  		      );
  	    XtPhase2Destroy(w);
  	}
  	else {
  	    i++;
- 	    dr++;
  	}
      }
  }
--- 222,245 ----
       */
  
      int i = 0;
!     DestroyRec* dr;
      while (i < app->destroy_count) {
+ 
+ 	/* XtPhase2Destroy can result in calls to XtDestroyWidget,
+ 	 * and these could cause app->destroy_list to be reallocated.
+ 	 */
+ 
+ 	dr = app->destroy_list + i;
  	if (dr->dispatch_level >= dispatch_level)  {
  	    Widget w = dr->widget;
  	    if (--app->destroy_count)
  		bcopy( (char*)(dr+1), (char*)dr,
! 		       (app->destroy_count - i) * sizeof(DestroyRec)
  		      );
  	    XtPhase2Destroy(w);
  	}
  	else {
  	    i++;
  	}
      }
  }

[from Donna Converse, converse@x.org]

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Subject: 130)  Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 deletion of work procs?!

Apparently the X11R4 NextEvent.c`CallWorkProc fails to properly replace
the work proc record back on the free list correctly.

        if (delete) {
            w->next = freeWorkRecs;
            freeWorkRecs = w->next;	/* should be  =w; */
        }

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Subject: 131)  Why does the process size of my X programs go up,up,up?

Using "ps" may not show any decrease in memory size after a malloc/free pair. 
With most vendors' implementations of memory managers, the call to free does 
not return memory to the operating system; it is probably maintained on a free 
list for the process. In addition, ps may not be an accurate report of current
memory usage requirements.

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Subject: 132)  Are callbacks guaranteed to be called in the order registered?

	Although some books demonstrate that the current implementation of Xt
happens to call callback procedures in the order in which they are registered, 
the specification does not guarantee such a sequence, and supplemental 
authoritative documents (i.e. the Asente/Swick volume) do say that the order is
undefined.  Because the callback list can be manipulated by both the widget and
the application, Xt cannot guarantee the order of execution.
	In general, the callback procedures should be thought of as operating 
independently of one another and should not depend on side-effects of other
callbacks operating; if a seqence is needed, then the single callback to be 
registered can explicitly call other functions necessary.

[4/92; thanks to converse@x.org]

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Subject: 133)  Why doesn't XtDestroyWidget() actually destroy the widget?

	XtDestroyWidget() operates in two passes, in order to avoid leaving
dangling data structures; the function-call marks the widget, which is not 
actually destroyed until your program returns to its event-loop. 

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Subject: 134)  How do I query the user synchronously using Xt?
	
	It is possible to have code which looks like this trivial callback,
which has a clear flow of control. The calls to AskUser() block until answer
is set to one of the valid values. If it is not a "yes" answer, the code drops
out of the callback and back to an event-processing loop: 

	void quit(Widget w, XtPointer client, XtPointer call)
	{
		int             answer;
		answer = AskUser(w, "Really Quit?");
		if (RET_YES == answer)
			{
			answer = AskUser(w, "Are You Really Positive?");
			if (RET_YES == answer)
				exit(0);
                }
	}

	A more realistic example might ask whether to create a file or whether 
to overwrite it.
	This is accomplished by entering a second event-processing loop and
waiting until the user answers the question; the answer is returned to the
calling function. That function AskUser() looks something like this, where the 
Motif can be replaced with widget-set-specific code to create some sort of 
dialog-box displaying the question string and buttons for "OK", "Cancel" and 
"Help" or equivalents:

  int AskUser(w, string)
        Widget          w;
        char           *string;
  {
        int             answer=RET_NONE;	/* some not-used marker */
        Widget          dialog;			/* could cache&carry, but ...*/
        Arg             args[3];
        int             n = 0;
        XtAppContext    context;

        n=0;
        XtSetArg(args[n], XmNmessageString, XmStringCreateLtoR(string,
                XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET)); n++;
        XtSetArg(args[n], XmNdialogStyle, XmDIALOG_APPLICATION_MODAL); n++;
        dialog = XmCreateQuestionDialog(XtParent(w), string, args, n);
        XtAddCallback(dialog, XmNokCallback, response, &answer);
        XtAddCallback(dialog, XmNcancelCallback, response, &answer);
        XtAddCallback(dialog, XmNhelpCallback, response, &answer);
        XtManageChild(dialog);

        context = XtWidgetToApplicationContext(w);
        while ((RET_NONE == answer) || XtAppPending(context)) 
                XtAppProcessEvent (context, XtIMAll);
        XtDestroyWidget(dialog);  /* blow away the dialog box and shell */
        return answer;
  }

	The dialog supports three buttons, which are set to call the same 
function when tickled by the user.  The variable answer is set when the user 
finally selects one of those choices:

  void response(w, client, call)
        Widget          w;
        XtPointer client;
        XtPointer call;
  {
        int *answer = (int *) client;
        XmAnyCallbackStruct *reason = (XmAnyCallbackStruct *) call;
        switch (reason->reason) {
        case XmCR_OK:
                *answer = RET_YES;	/* some #define value */
                break;
        case XmCR_CANCEL:
                *answer = RET_NO; 
		break;
        case XmCR_HELP:
                *answer = RET_HELP;
                break;
        default:
                return;
        }
}

and the code unwraps back to the point at which an answer was needed and
continues from there.

[Thanks to Dan Heller (now argv@z-code.com); note that the code in his book
caches the dialog but neglects to make sure that the callbacks point to the
current automatic "answer".]

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Subject: 135)  How do I determine the name of an existing widget?
I have a widget ID and need to know what the name of that widget is.

	Users of R4 and later are best off using the XtName() function, which 
will work on both widgets and non-widget objects.

	If you are still using R3, you can use this simple bit of code to do 
what you want. Note that it depends on the widget's internal data structures 
and is not necessarily portable to future versions of Xt, including R4.

	#include <X11/CoreP.h>
	#include <X11/Xresource.h>
	String XtName (widget)
	Widget widget;	/* WILL work with non-widget objects */
	{
	return XrmNameToString(widget->core.xrm_name);
	}

[7/90; modified with suggestion by Larry Rogers (larry@boris.webo.dg.com) 9/91]

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Subject: 136)  Why do I get a BadDrawable error drawing to XtWindow(widget)?
I'm doing this in order to get a window into which I can do Xlib graphics
within my Xt-based program:

> canvas = XtCreateManagedWidget ( ...,widgetClass,...) /* drawing area */
> ...
> window = XtWindow(canvas);	/* get the window associated with the widget */
> ...
> XDrawLine (...,window,...);	/* produces error */

	The window associated with the widget is created as a part of the 
realization of the widget.  Using a window id of None ("no window") could 
create the error that you describe.  It is necessary to call XtRealizeWidget() 
before attempting to use the window associated with a widget. 
	Note that the window will be created after the XtRealizeWidget() call, 
but that the server may not have actually mapped it yet, so you should also 
wait for an Expose event on the window before drawing into it.

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Subject: 137)  Where can I get documentation on Xaw, the Athena widget set?

	Check ftp.x.org in /pub/R5untarred/mit/hardcopy for the originals of
documentation distributed with X11R5. In R6, see xc/doc/specs/Xaw or
xc/doc/hardcopy/Xaw.

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Subject: 138)  What's the difference between actions and callbacks?

Actions and callbacks may be closely tied; the user may click a mouse-button
in an object's window, causing an action procedure in that particular object
to be called. As part of its processing of the event, the action procedure
may inform the application via a callback registered on the object. However,
callbacks can be given for any reason, including some that don't arise as a
result of user action; and many actions don't result in any notification to
the application.

Callbacks generally are a means of interaction between the user interface
(UI) and some other piece of code interested in the "results"; the interested
party to which the data is communicated is usually the application's back-end
functions but may be another widget in a related part of the UI.  For
example, a text widget invokes a callback to say "the user just entered this
text string; never mind what I had to do to get it or what X events took
place."

In object-oriented programming terminology, callback lists are messages
defined by the widget class by which the widget istance notifies another
entity that something significant has happened to the widget.

Actions, however, constitute a widget's repertoire of internal i/o
behaviors.  Actions are not about results; actions are about "how", not
"what" gets done. The text widget may define a dozen or two actions which
define how the user can manipulate the text; the procedures for removing a
line of text or switching two words can be associated with particular X event
sequences (and in fact often rely on particular types of events).

Actions are (in OOP terminology) methods of the widget class by which the
widget responds to some external stimulus (one or more X events).

To avoid confusing yourself on the issue of actions vs. callbacks, try
thinking of actions defined by an application as methods *of the application*
-- applications may define actions, as well -- by which the application
responds to one or more X events (and happens to be handed an object handle
as part of the method argument list). Similarly, callback handlers registered
by an application with a widget can be thought of as methods of the
application which respond to messages from a widget or widgets.

[Thanks to Michael Johnson (michael@maine.maine.edu) and to Kerry Kimbrough]

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Subject: 139)  How do I simulate a button press/release event for a widget?

	You can do this using XSendEvent(); it's likely that you're not setting
the window field in the event, which Xt needs in order to match to the widget
which should receive the event.
	 If you're sending events to your own application, then you can use 
XtDispatchEvent() instead. This is more efficient than XSendEvent() in that you
avoid a round-trip to the server.
	Depending on how well the widget was written, you may be able to call
its action procedures in order to get the effects you want.

[courtesy Mark A. Horstman (mh2620@sarek.sbc.com), 11/90]

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David B. Lewis 					faq%craft@uunet.uu.net

		"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday 

-- 
David B. Lewis			Temporarily at but not speaking for ICS
day: dbl@ics.com		evening: dbl%craft@uunet.uu.net

*******************************************************************************

Archive-name: x-faq/part6
Last-modified: 1994/08/28

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Subject: 140)!  Can I make Xt or Xlib calls from a signal handler?

No. Xlib and Xt have no mutual exclusion for protecting critical sections. If
your signal handler makes such a call at the wrong time (which might be while
the function you are calling is already executing), it can leave the library
in an inconsistent state. Note that the ANSI C standard points out that
behavior of a signal handler is undefined if the signal handler calls any
function other than signal() itself, so this is not a problem specific to
Xlib and Xt; the POSIX specification mentions other functions which may be
called safely but it may not be assumed that these functions are called by
Xlib or Xt functions.

Setting a global variable is one of the few permitted operations.  You can
work around the problem by setting a flag in the interrupt handler and later
checking it with a work procedure or a timer event which has previously been
added or by using a custom event loop.

R6 Xt has have support for signal handlers; there is a mechanism to set a
flag in a signal handler, and XtAppNextEvent will notice that the flag has
been set and call the associated callbacks.

Note: the article in The X Journal 1:4 and the example in the first edition
of O'Reilly & Associates' Volume 6 are in error.

[Thanks to Pete Ware (ware@cis.ohio-state.edu) and Donna Converse
(converse@x.org), 5/92]

An alternate solution is to create a pipe and add the read side of the pipe
as an input event with XtAppAddInput; then write a byte to the write side of
the pipe with your signal handler (write is re-entrant). The callback for the
read side of the pipe reads the byte and does the actual processing that you
intended. You may want the byte to be the signal number unless your callback
handles only one kind.

[Thanks to Steve Kappel (stevek@apertus.com)]

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Subject: 141)  What are these "Xlib sequence lost" errors?

	You may see these errors if you issue Xlib requests from an Xlib error 
handler, or, more likely, if you make calls which generate X requests to Xt or 
Xlib from a signal handler, which you shouldn't be doing in any case. 

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Subject: 142)  How can my Xt program handle socket, pipe, or file input?

	It's very common to need to write an Xt program that can accept input 
both from a user via the X connection and from some other file descriptor, but 
which operates efficiently and without blocking on either the X connection or 
the other file descriptor.
	A solution is use XtAppAddInput(). After you open your file descriptor,
use XtAppAddInput() to register an input handler. The input handler will be 
called every time there is something on the file descriptor requiring your 
program's attention. Write the input handler like you would any other Xt 
callback, so it does its work quickly and returns.  It is important to use only
non-blocking I/O system calls in your input handlers.
	Most input handlers read the file descriptor, although you can have an 
input handler write or handle exception conditions if you wish.
	Be careful when you register an input handler to read from a disk file.
You will find that the function is called even when there isn't input pending.
XtAppAddInput() is actually working as it is supposed to. The input handler is 
called whenever the file descriptor is READY to be read, not only when there is
new data to be read. A disk file (unlike a pipe or socket) is almost always 
ready to be read, however, if only because you can spin back to the beginning
and read data you've read before.  The result is that your function will almost
always be called every time around XtAppMainLoop(). There is a way to get the 
type of interaction you are expecting; add this line to the beginning of your 
function to test whether there is new data:
	     if (ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, &n) == -1 || n == 0) return;
But, because this is called frequently, your application is effectively in a 
busy-wait; you may be better off not using XtAppAddInput() and instead setting 
a timer and in the timer procedure checking the file for input.

[courtesy Dan Heller (argv@ora.com), 8/90; mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu 5/91;
Ollie Jones (oj@pictel.com) 6/92]

There are two alternatives: the simple one is to use XtAppAddTimeout instead
of XtAppAddInput and check for input occasionally; the more complex solution,
and perhaps the better one, is to popen or fork&exec a child which does
blocking reads on the file, relaying what it has read to your application via
a pipe or a socket. XtAppAddInput will work as expected on pipes and
sockets.

[Thanks to Kaleb Keithley (kaleb@x.org); 12/93]

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Subject: 143)  What's this R6 error: X Toolkit Error: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues?

The application has a bug! A workaround is described in Section 3.4 of
the R6 release notes.  Here's the relevant excerpt:

   GetValuesBC
     Setting this variable to YES allows illegal XtGetValues requests with
     NULL ArgVal to usually succeed, as R5 did.  Some applications erro-
     neously rely on this behavior.  Support for this will be removed in a
     future release.

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Subject: 144)  Why do I get a BadMatch error when calling XGetImage?

The BadMatch error can occur if the specified rectangle goes off the edge of 
the screen. If you don't want to catch the error and deal with it, you can take
the following steps to avoid the error:

1) Make a pixmap the same size as the rectangle you want to capture.
2) Clear the pixmap to background using XFillRectangle.
3) Use XCopyArea to copy the window to the pixmap.
4) If you get a NoExpose event, the copy was clean. Use XGetImage to grab the
image from the pixmap.
5) If you get one or more GraphicsExpose events, the copy wasn't clean, and 
the x/y/width/height members of the GraphicsExpose event structures tell you 
the parts of the pixmap which aren't good.
6) Get rid of the pixmap; it probably takes a lot of memory.

[10/92; thanks to Oliver Jones (oj@pictel.com)]

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Subject: 145)  How can my application tell if it is being run under X?

	A number of programs offer X modes but otherwise run in a straight
character-only mode. The easiest way for an application to determine that it is
running on an X display is to attempt to open a connection to the X server:
	
	display = XOpenDisplay(display_name);
	if (display)
		{ do X stuff }
	else
		{ do curses or something else }
where display_name is either the string specified on the command-line following
-display, by convention, or otherwise is (char*)NULL [in which case 
XOpenDisplay uses the value of $DISPLAY, if set].

This is superior to simply checking for the existence a -display command-line 
argument or checking for $DISPLAY set in the environment, neither of which is 
adequate. [5/91]

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Subject: 146)  How do I make a "busy cursor" while my application is computing?
Is it necessary to call XDefineCursor() for every window in my application?

	The easiest thing to do is to create a single InputOnly window that
is as large as the largest possible screen; make it a child of your toplevel
window (which must be realized) and it will be clipped to that window, so it
won't affect any other application. (It needs to be as big as the largest
possible screen in case the user enlarges the window while it is busy or
moves elsewhere within a virtual desktop.) Substitute "toplevel" with your
top-most widget here (similar code should work for Xlib-only applications;
just use your top Window):

     unsigned long valuemask;
     XSetWindowAttributes attributes;

     /* Ignore device events while the busy cursor is displayed. */
     valuemask = CWDontPropagate | CWCursor;
     attributes.do_not_propagate_mask =  (KeyPressMask | KeyReleaseMask |
         ButtonPressMask | ButtonReleaseMask | PointerMotionMask);
     attributes.cursor = XCreateFontCursor(XtDisplay(toplevel), XC_watch);

     /* The window will be as big as the display screen, and clipped by
        its own parent window, so we never have to worry about resizing */
     XCreateWindow(XtDisplay(toplevel), XtWindow(toplevel), 0, 0,
         65535, 65535, (unsigned int) 0, 0, InputOnly,
         CopyFromParent, valuemask, &attributes);

where the maximum size above could be replaced by the real size of the screen,
particularly to avoid servers which have problems with windows larger than
32767.

When you want to use this busy cursor, map and raise this window; to go back to
normal, unmap it. This will automatically keep you from getting extra mouse
events; depending on precisely how the window manager works, it may or may not
have a similar effect on keystrokes as well.

In addition, note also that most of the Xaw widgets support an XtNcursor 
resource which can be temporarily reset, should you merely wish to change the
cursor without blocking pointer events.

[thanks to Andrew Wason (aw@cellar.bae.bellcore.com), Dan Heller 
(now argv@z-code.com), and mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu; 11/90,5/91]

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Subject: 147)  How do I fork without hanging my parent X program?

	An X-based application which spawns off other Unix processes which 
continue to run after it is closed typically does not vanish until all of its 
children are terminated; the children inherit from the parent the open X 
connection to the display. 
	What you need to do is fork; then, immediately, in the child process, 
		close (ConnectionNumber(XtDisplay(widget)));
to close the file-descriptor in the display information. After this do your 
exec. You will then be able to exit the parent.
	Alternatively, before exec'ing make this call, which causes the file 
descriptor to be closed on exec.
		(void) fcntl(ConnectionNumber(XDisplay), F_SETFD, 1);

[Thanks to Janet Anstett (anstettj@tramp.Colorado.EDU), Gordon Freedman 
(gjf00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com); 2/91. Greg Holmberg (holmberg@frame.com), 3/93.]

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Subject: 148)  Why doesn't anything appear when I run this simple program?

> ...
> the_window = XCreateSimpleWindow(the_display,
>      root_window,size_hints.x,size_hints.y,
>      size_hints.width,size_hints.height,BORDER_WIDTH,
>      BlackPixel(the_display,the_screen),
>      WhitePixel(the_display,the_screen));
> ...
> XSelectInput(the_display,the_window,ExposureMask|ButtonPressMask|
> 	ButtonReleaseMask);
> XMapWindow(the_display,the_window);
> ...
> XDrawLine(the_display,the_window,the_GC,5,5,100,100);
> ...

	You are right to map the window before drawing into it. However, the 
window is not ready to be drawn into until it actually appears on the screen --
until your application receives an Expose event. Drawing done before that will 
generally not appear. You'll see code like this in many programs; this code 
would appear after the window was created and mapped:
  while (!done)
    {
      XNextEvent(the_display,&the_event);
      switch (the_event.type) {
	case Expose:	 /* On expose events, redraw */
		XDrawLine(the_display,the_window,the_GC,5,5,100,100);
		break;
	...
	}
    }

	Note that there is a second problem: some Xlib implementations don't 
set up the default graphics context to have correct foreground/background 
colors, so this program could previously include this code:
  ...
  the_GC_values.foreground=BlackPixel(the_display,the_screen);	/* e.g. */
  the_GC_values.background=WhitePixel(the_display,the_screen);	/* e.g. */
  the_GC = XCreateGC(the_display,the_window,
                GCForeground|GCBackground,&the_GC_values);
  ...
 
Note: the code uses BlackPixel and WhitePixel to avoid assuming that 1 is 
black and 0 is white or vice-versa.  The relationship between pixels 0 and 1 
and the colors black and white is implementation-dependent.  They may be 
reversed, or they may not even correspond to black and white at all.

Also note that actually using BlackPixel and WhitePixel is usually the wrong 
thing to do in a finished program, as it ignores the user's preference for 
foreground and background.

And also note that you can run into the same situation in an Xt-based program
if you draw into the XtWindow(w) right after it has been realized; it may
not yet have appeared.

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Subject: 149)  What is the difference between a Screen and a screen?

	The 'Screen' is an Xlib structure which includes the information about
one of the monitors or virtual monitors which a single X display supports. A 
server can support several independent screens. They are numbered unix:0.0,
unix:0.1, unix:0.2, etc; the 'screen' or 'screen_number' is the second digit --
the 0, 1, 2 which can be thought of as an index into the array of available 
Screens on this particular Display connection.
	The macros which you can use to obtain information about the particular
Screen on which your application is running typically have two forms -- one
which takes a Screen and one with takes both the Display and the screen_number.
	In Xt-based programs, you typically use XtScreen(widget) to determine 
the Screen on which your application is running, if it uses a single screen.
	(Part of the confusion may arise from the fact that some of the macros
which return characteristics of the Screen have "Display" in the names -- 
XDisplayWidth, XDisplayHeight, etc.)
	
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Subject: 150)  Can XGetWindowAttributes get a window's background pixel/pixmap?

	No.  Once set, the background pixel or pixmap of a window cannot be 
re-read by clients.  The reason for this is that a client can create a pixmap,
set it to be the background pixmap of a window, and then free the pixmap. The 
window keeps this background, but the pixmap itself is destroyed.  If you're 
sure a window has a background pixel (not a pixmap), you can use XClearArea() 
to clear a region to the background color and then use XGetImage() to read 
back that pixel.  However, this action alters the contents of the window, and 
it suffers from race conditions with exposures. [courtesy Dave Lemke of NCD 
and Stuart Marks of Sun]

	Note that the same applies to the border pixel/pixmap. This is a 
(mis)feature of the protocol which allows the server is free to manipulate the
pixel/pixmap however it wants.  By not requiring the server to keep the 
original pixel or pixmap, some (potentially a lot of) space can be saved. 
[courtesy Jim Fulton, then of X Consortium]

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Subject: 151)  How do I create a transparent window?
	
	A completely transparent window is easy to get -- use an InputOnly
window. In order to create a window which is *mostly* transparent, you have
several choices:
	- the SHAPE extension first released with X11R4 offers an easy way to
make non-rectangular windows, so you can set the shape of the window to fit the
areas where the window should be nontransparent; however, not all servers 
support the extension.
	- a machine-specific method of implementing transparent windows for
particular servers is to use an overlay plane supported by the hardware.  Note 
that there is no X notion of a "transparent color index".
	- a generally portable solution is to use a large number of tiny 
windows, but this makes operating on the application as a unit difficult.
	- a final answer is to consider whether you really need a transparent
window or if you would be satisfied with being able to overlay your application
window with information; if so, you can draw into separate bitplanes in colors
that will appear properly.

[thanks to der Mouse, mouse@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, 3/92; see also
The X Journal 1:4 for a more complete answer, including code samples for this
last option]

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Subject: 152)  Why doesn't GXxor produce mathematically-correct color values?

	When using GXxor you may expect that drawing with a value of black on a
background of black, for example, should produce white. However, the drawing
operation does not work on RGB values but on colormap indices. The color that
the resulting colormap index actually points to is undefined and visually
random unless you have actually filled it in yourself. [On many X servers Black
and White often 0/1 or 1/0; programs taking advantage of this mathematical
coincidence will break.]
	If you want to be combining colors with GXxor, then you should be 
allocating a number of your own color cells and filling them with your chosen
pre-computed values.
	If you want to use GXxor simply to switch between two colors, then you 
can take the shortcut of setting the background color in the GC (graphics 
context) to 0 and the foreground color to a value such that when it draws over 
red, say, the result is blue, and when it draws over blue the result is red. 
This foreground value is itself the XOR of the colormap indices of red and 
blue.

[Thanks to Chris Flatters (cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.EDU) and Ken Whaley 
(whaley@spectre.pa.dec.com), 2/91]

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Subject: 153)  Why does every color I allocate show up as black?

	Make sure you're using 16 bits and not 8.  The red, green, and blue 
fields of an XColor structure are scaled so that 0 is nothing and 65535 is 
full-blast. If you forget to scale (using, for example, 0-255 for each color) 
the XAllocColor function will perform correctly but the resulting color is 
usually black. 

[Thanks to Paul Asente, asente@adobe.com, 7/91]

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Subject: 154)  Why do I get a protocol error when creating a cursor (sic)?

	You may have had this code working on a monochrome system by
coincidence.  Cursor pixmaps must always have a depth of 1; when you create
the cursor pixmap use the depth of 1 rather than the default depth of the
screen.

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Subject: 155)  Why can't my program get a standard colormap?
I have an image-processing program which uses XGetRGBColormap() to get the 
standard colormap, but it doesn't work. 

	XGetRGBColormap() when used with the property XA_RGB_DEFAULT_MAP does 
not create a standard colormap -- it just returns one if one already exists.
Use xstdcmap or do what it does in order to create the standard colormap first.

[1/91; from der Mouse (mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu)]

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Subject: 156)  Why does the pixmap I copy to the screen show up as garbage? 

	The initial contents of pixmaps are undefined.  This means that most
servers will allocate the memory and leave around whatever happens to be there 
-- which is usually garbage.  You probably want to clear the pixmap first using
XFillRectangle() with a function of GXcopy and a foreground pixel of whatever 
color you want as your background (or 0L if you are using the pixmap as a 
mask). [courtesy Dave Lemke of NCD and Stuart Marks of Sun]

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Subject: 157)  How can I most quickly send an image to the X server? 

	The fastest mechanism may be to use an XImage and the shared-memory
extension to reduce the transmission time.
	The MIT-SHM code, documentation, and example client programs can be 
found on the X11R5 source tape; many vendors also support the extension.
	If bandwidth is a problem, the X Image Extension has facilities for
transmitting compressed images.

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Subject: 158)  How do I check whether a window ID is valid?
My program has the ID of a window on a remote display. I want to check whether
the window exists before doing anything with it.

	Because X is asynchronous, there isn't a guarantee that the window 
would still exist between the time that you got the ID and the time you sent an
event to the window or otherwise manipulated it. What you should do is send the
event without checking, but install an error handler to catch any BadWindow
errors, which would indicate that the window no longer exists. This scheme
will work except on the [rare] occasion that the original window has been
destroyed and its ID reallocated to another window. 
	You can use this scheme to make a function which checks the validity
of a window; you can make this operation almost synchronous by calling
XSync() after the request, although there is still no guarantee that the
window will exist after the result (unless the sterver is grabbed). On the 
whole, catching the error rather than pre-checking is preferable.

[courtesy Ken Lee (now kenton@esd.sgi.com), 4/90; 12/93]

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Subject: 159)  Can I have two applications draw to the same window?

	Yes. The X server assigns IDs to windows and other resources (actually,
the server assigns some bits, the client others), and any application that 
knows the ID can manipulate the resource [almost any X server resource, except
for GCs and private color cells, can be shared].
	The problem you face is how to disseminate the window ID to multiple 
applications. A simple way to handle this (and which solves the problem of the
applications' running on different machines) is in the first application to 
create a specially-named property on the root-window and put the window ID into
it. The second application then retrieves the property, whose name it also
knows, and then can draw whatever it wants into the window.
	[Note: this scheme works iff there is only one instance of the first
application running, and the scheme is subject to the limitations mentioned
in the Question about using window IDs on remote displays.]
	Note also that you will still need to coordinate any higher-level 
cooperation among your applications; you may find the Synchronization
extension in R6 useful for this.
	Note also that two processes can share a window but should not try to 
use the same server connection. If one process is a child of the other, it 
should close down the connection to the server and open its own connection.
	Note also that Display IDs and GC values describe addresses local
to an application and cannot be transmitted to another application; note also
that if you are using Xt you may not share widget IDs, which are local to the
client.
	Note also that several clients may draw to a window but for particular
X events such as button-presses only one client can receive the event.

[mostly courtesy Phil Karlton (karlton@wpd.sgi.com) 6/90]

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Subject: 160)  Why can't my program work with tvtwm or swm?

	A number of applications, including xwd, xwininfo, and xsetroot, do not
handle the virtual root window which tvtwm and swm use; they typically return 
the wrong child of root. A general solution is to add this code or to use it in
your own application where you would normally use RootWindow(dpy,screen):

/* Function Name: GetVRoot
 * Description: Gets the root window, even if it's a virtual root
 * Arguments: the display and the screen
 * Returns: the root window for the client
 */
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
Window GetVRoot(dpy, scr)
Display        *dpy;
int             scr;
{
Window          rootReturn, parentReturn, *children;
unsigned int    numChildren;
Window          root = RootWindow(dpy, scr);
Atom            __SWM_VROOT = None;
int             i;

  __SWM_VROOT = XInternAtom(dpy, "__SWM_VROOT", False);
  XQueryTree(dpy, root, &rootReturn, &parentReturn, &children, &numChildren);
  for (i = 0; i < numChildren; i++) {
	Atom            actual_type;
	int             actual_format;
	long            nitems, bytesafter;
	Window         *newRoot = NULL;

	if (XGetWindowProperty(dpy, children[i], __SWM_VROOT, 0, 1,
	    False, XA_WINDOW, &actual_type, &actual_format, &nitems,
            &bytesafter, (unsigned char **) &newRoot) == Success && newRoot) {
			root = *newRoot;
			break;
		}
	}

	XFree((char *)children);
	return root;
}

[courtesy David Elliott (dce@smsc.sony.com). Similar code is in ssetroot, a
version of xsetroot distributed with tvtwm. 2/91]

A header file by Andreas Stolcke of ICSI on ftp.x.org:contrib/vroot.h 
functions similarly by providing macros for RootWindow and DefaultRootWindow;
code can include this header file first to run properly in the presence of a
virtual desktop.

(Note the possible race condition.)
	
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Subject: 161)  Can I rely on a server which offers backing store?  

	You can assume only that the X server has the capability of doing
backing store and that it might do so and keep your application's visuals
up-to-date without your program's involvement; however, the X server can run
out of resources at any time, so you must be able to handle the exposure
events yourself. You cannot rely on a server which offers backing store to
maintain your windows' contents on your behalf.

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Subject: 162)  How do I catch the "close window" event to avoid "fatal IO error"?

	Several windows managers offer a function such as f.kill or f.delete
which sends a message to the application that it should delete its window;
this is usually interpreted as a shutdown message.
	The application needs to catch the WM_DELETE_WINDOW client message.
There is a good example in the xcalc sources in X11R5.
	Motif-based applications should in addition set the resource
XmNdeleteResponse on the top-level shell to XmDO_NOTHING, whether they are
using the Motif window manager or not.
	If the application doesn't handle this message the window manager may
wind up calling XKillClient, which disconnects the client from the display and
typically gives an Xlib error along the lines of "fatal IO error 32 (Broken 
pipe)".

[Thanks to Kaleb Keithley, kaleb@x.org; 11/93]

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Subject: 163)  How do I keep a window from being resized by the user?

	Resizing the window is done through the window manager; window managers
can pay attention to the size hints your application places on the window, but 
there is no guarantee that the window manager will listen. You can try setting 
the minimum and maximum size hints to your target size and hope for the best. 
	Note that you may wish to reconsider your justification for this
restriction.

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Subject: 164)  How do I keep a window in the foreground at all times?

	It's rather antisocial for an application to constantly raise itself
[e.g. by tracking VisibilityNotify events] so that it isn't overlapped -- 
imagine the conflict between two such programs running.  
	The only sure way to have your window appear on the top of the stack
is to make the window override-redirect; this means that you are temporarily
assuming window-management duties while the window is up, so you want to do 
this infrequently and then only for short periods of time (e.g. for popup 
menus or other short parameter-setting windows).

[thanks to der Mouse (mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu); 7/92]

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Subject: 165)  How do I make text and bitmaps blink in X?

	There is no easy way.  Unless you're willing to depend on some sort of
extension (as yet non-existent), you have to arrange for the blinking yourself,
either by redrawing the contents periodically or, if possible, by playing games
with the colormap and changing the color of the contents.

[Thanks to mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse), 7/91]

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Subject: 166)  How do I get a double-click in Xlib?

	Users of Xt have the support of the translation manager to help 
get notification of double-clicking.
	There is no good way to get only a double-click in Xlib, because the 
protocol does not provide enough support to do double-clicks.  You have to do 
client-side timeouts, unless the single-click action is such that you can defer
actually taking it until you next see an event from the server.  Thus, you 
have to do timeouts, which means system-dependent code.  On most UNIXish 
implementations, you can use XConnectionNumber to get the file descriptor of 
the X connection and then use select() or something similar on that.
	Note that many user-interface references suggest that a double-click
be used to extend the action indicated by a single-click; if this is the case
in your interface then you can execute the first action and as a compromise
check the timestamp on the second event to determine whether it, too, should
be the single-click action or the double-click action.

[Thanks to mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse), 4/93]

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Subject: 167)  How do I render rotated text?
	
	The X Logical Font Description was enhanced for R6 to allow embedding
a transformation matrix in certain fields of an XLFD name.  Thus arbitrary
rotation, scaling, shearing, etc. are possible.  To draw text along an
arbitrarily sloped line, open a font with the appropriate rotation
transformation and individually place and draw each character.  Drawing text
along a curve requires a different font for each character orientation
needed.  The overhead of opening so many fonts is somewhat mitigated by
another XLFD extension which allows you to ask for a subset of the
characters.  See section 4 of xc/doc/specs/XLFD/xlfd.tbl.ms in the R6
distribution.  Also see The X Resource, Issue Nine, p. 211, "New Font
Technology for X11R6," Nathan Meyers.  (Note: due to changes after
publication deadline, the information in the Meyers paper about the syntax of
character set subsetting is out of date.) These capabilities are also
available to an R5 X server using an R6 font server.

	If you are not using R6, your only choice, if you want to stay within
the core X protocol, is to render the text into a pixmap, read it back via
XGetImage(), rotate it "by hand" with whatever matrices you want, and put it
back to the server via XPutImage(); more specifically:

	Your only choice, if you want to stay within the core X protocol, is to
render the text into a pixmap, read it back via XGetImage(), rotate it "by 
hand" with whatever matrices you want, and put it back to the server via 
XPutImage(); more specifically:
	1) create a bitmap B and write your text to it.
	2) create an XYBitmap image I from B (via XGetImage).
	3) create an XYBitmap Image I2 big enough to handle the transformation.
	4) for each x,y in I2, I2(x,y) = I(a,b) where 
		a = x * cos(theta) - y * sin(theta)
		b = x * sin(theta) + y * cos(theta)
	5) render I2
	Note that you should be careful how you implement this not to lose
bits; an algorithm based on shear transformations may in fact be better.
	The high-level server-extensions and graphics packages available for X 
also permit rendering of rotated text: Display PostScript, PEX, PHiGS, and GKS,
although most are not capable of arbitrary rotation and probably do not use the
same fonts that would be found on a printer.
	In addition, if you have enough access to the server to install a font
on it, you can create a font which consists of letters rotated at some
predefined angle. Your application can then itself figure out placement of each
glyph.

[courtesy der Mouse (mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu), Eric Taylor
(etaylor@wilkins.bmc.tmc.edu), and Ken Lee (now kenton@esd.sgi.com), 11/90;
Liam Quin (lee@sq.com), 12/90; Dave Wiggins (dpw@x.org), 5/94.]

	InterViews (C++ UI toolkit, in the X contrib software) has support for
rendering rotated fonts in X.  It could be one source of example code.
[Brian R. Smith (brsmith@cs.umn.edu), 3/91]
	Another possibility is to use the Hershey Fonts; they are 
stroke-rendered and can be used by X by converting them into XDrawLine 
requests. [eric@pencom.com, 10/91]

	The xrotfont program by Alan Richardson (mppa3@syma.sussex.ac.uk) 
(posted to comp.sources.x July 14 1992) paints a rotated font by implementing 
the method above and by using an outline (Hershey) font.
	The xvertext package by Alan Richardson (mppa3@syma.sussex.ac.uk) is a 
set of functions to facilitate the writing of text at any angle.  It is on 
ftp.x.org as contrib/xvertext.5.0.shar.Z. 

	O'Reilly's X Resource issue 3 includes information from HP about
modifications to the X fonts server which provide for rotated and scaled text.
The modifications are on ftp.x.org in contrib/hp_xlfd_enhancements.

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Subject: 168)  Why doesn't my multi-threaded X program work (sic) ? 
  
Support in Xlib and Xt for multi-threaded X programs is included in X11R6.
See the documentation for XInitThreads, XtToolkitThreadInitialize, section
2.7 of the Xlib specification, section 7.12 of the Xt specification, and the
article "Multi-Threaded Xlib," The X Resource, Issue 5, by Stephen Gildea.
The following discussion applies only to pre-R6 libraries:

You cannot use non-thread aware, non-reentrant libraries with threads.

If you must do this, you have only one choice: call the functions from the
initial thread only.

Why opening windows from other threads causes protocol errors can be
explained easily: you are accessing shared resources (the display
structure, the connection to the display, static data in the Xlib) from
a number of threads at the same time, without using any form of
exclusive access control.

[Thanks to casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)]

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Subject: 169)  What is the X Registry? (How do I reserve names?)

	There are places in the X Toolkit, in applications, and in the X
protocol that define and use string names. The context is such that conflicts
are possible if different components use the same name for different things.
	The X Consortium maintains a registry of names in these domains:
orgainization names, selection names, selection targets, resource types,
application classes, and class extension record types; and several others.
	The list as of April 1994 is in the file xc/registry in the R6
distribution. The current Registry is also available by sending "send docs
registry" to the xstuff mail server.
	To register names (first come, first served) or to ask questions send 
to xregistry@x.org; be sure to include a postal address for confirmation.

[11/90; condensed from Asente/Swick Appendix H; 1/94]
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