From: dbl@ics.com (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers,comp.answers Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4/6 Date: 11 Apr 1995 13:37:11 GMT Organization: ICS Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <3me0m7$qeq@ics.com> Reply-To: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address) Summary: useful information about the X Window System Archive-name: x-faq/part4 Last-modified: 1995/04/10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 69)! 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 coordinated by Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl) is now [10/94] available on ftp.let.rug.nl (129.125.8.20) in pub/FWF/fwf.tar.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@let.rug.nl a message saying "subscribe " where is one of free-widgets-announce, free-widgets-development, or free-widgets-bugs. John Cwikla's MegaButton offres applications a menu with a scrolling array of choices. Source in on ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/MegaB. An *alpha* version of a tree widget with collapse/expand children capability is at http://www.ii.uib.no/~torgeir/work/outline.html. Info: Torgeir Veimo (torgeir@eik.ii.uib.no) [1/95] The SciPlot widget is capable of plotting cartesian or polar graphs. Sources are on ftp.x.org in /contrib/widgets/SciPlot-1.0.tar.gz.. 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. High-performance 2D and 3D widgets are available as part of the Histo-Scope widget set for graphing and plotting; sources are on ftp.fnal.gov in the pub/plot_widgets directory. 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 1.31 became available 4/95. Sources are under GPL terms. 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. Its image widget understands a set of image file formats (GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM) and supports scaling operations. Version 3.0 [1/95] is on ftp.x.org in contrib/widgets/Xew/. 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) A revision of the XbaeMatrix (by Kevin Brannen (kbrannen@metronet.com)) is availble on ftp.x.org as /contrib/widgets/motif/Xbae.4.0.tar.gz. [4/95] 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-1.1.tar.Z (updated 4/95 to X11R6.11). The library, which is binary-compatible with Xaw, implements a 3D subclass which handles the extra drawing. See also ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6/README. The Andrew User Interface System supplies an extensive collection of widgets including full-blown editors for text, rasters, figures, tables, and so on. The XmSmartMessageBoxWidget by John L. Cwikla (cwikla@wri.com) is available at ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/SmartMB. The XmGauge by Jean-Michel Leon shows a Macintosh-like progress bar. It can be found at ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/widgets/. A Motif or Athena "Canvas" widget for 2D graphics is available via http://www.inria.fr/koala/jml/widgets/canvas.html. It provides graphical display of lines, rectangles, icons, etc., and direct manipulation services. Sources are on avahi.inria.fr:/pub/widgets/knvas-1.9.tar.gz and ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/knvas-1.9.tar.gz. 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). G5G has available a Motif PHiGS widget; contact phigs@g5g.fr for information. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 70) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 71) 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] There is an HTML widget in the NCSA Mosaic distribution. Bristol's HyperHelp product is a help system based around a hyper-text widget. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 72) 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. An Xt Canvas widget by Jean-Michel Leon (leon@sophia.inria.fr) is intended to provide graphical display and direct manipulation services for Motif and Xaw clients. Available from avahi.inria.fr:/pub/widgets/canvas-widget-1.7.tar.gz, ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/canvas-widget-1.7.tar.gz. The Knvas widget is intended to supply graphical display and direct manipulation services for Xaw or Xm applications. Source is on avahi.inria.fr:/pub/widgets/canvas-widget-1.7.tar.gz and ftp.x.org:/contrib/widgets/motif/canvas-widget-1.7.tar.gz. Info: http://zenon.inria.fr:8003/~leon/widgets/canvas.html. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 73) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 74) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 75) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 76) 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. Tenon's MachTen X Window Software, Release 3.0, is a comprehensive X display server and X client development environment. It includes an X11R5 server ported to MachTen/MacOS, standard window managers, an a set of X11R5 client-side libraries. Info: Tenon Intersystems, 805-963-698, AppleLink: TENON. 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. AGE Logic will ship XoftWare for Macintosh in March 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 77) 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 78) 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 79) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 80) 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.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 81) 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 &1)` ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 82) 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. Version 1.3 is on ftp.x.org and on the R6 contrib tape. 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] 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 and Steinar Bang .] 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 83) 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 84)! 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. XEmacs (formerly 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 (9/94) is 19.11, and is available from CS.UIUC.EDU (128.174.252.1). See also http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/. 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 5.2 [3/95], which also supports Xt-based implementations (including a Motif version) is available on id.wing.net in /pub/pgf/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 3.1 (10/94) 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 ftp.fnal.gov:pub/nedit/, which also offers pre-built binaries several platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, and DEC systems. Information: Mark Edel (edel@fnal.gov, nedit_support@fnal.gov); http://cdibm.fnal.gov:/nirvana/nedit.html. 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-1.32.tar.Z [11/94]. 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 (X/contrib-R5/clients); it also has bindings similar to emacs and has a built-in browser for C and C++ code. Version 2.4 was released 4/95. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 85)! 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 [1/95] is 1.6beta; older versions are available in the X11R5 contrib tape and from ftp.x.org and uunet. Info: Jeff Markham, markham@cadence.com. thsmail, by Thomas Schaller (ths@thshome.erls02.siemens.de), is a Motif-based Mail User Agent for RFC822 and MIME messages. The Linux version is freeware; try ftp.erls02.siemens.de:/pub/linux/thsmail/*. 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. coolmail 1.2 became available 4/95. It is a mail notification utility for UNIX systems running X. Sources are on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/packages/mail/. 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. 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. XLView is an X mailer with MIME support that is also an IMAP client. 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. Ishmail from Halsoft (ftp.halsoft.com) is available on several platforms. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 86) 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. xfig 3.1.3 is available [1/95] in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig; transfig 3.1.1 is available in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig. Older 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 2.16.6 was released 2/95. See http://bourbon.cs.ucla.edu:8001/tgif/. 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). pcb is intended primarly for printed circuit board layouts; it is available in ftp.medizin.uni-ulm.de:/pub/pcb-1.2/. 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)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 87) 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, available from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/graphics/faq or http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/faq/faq.html 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/robotx0.48.tar.Z [128.118.147.70] 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. 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