david@ics.com (David B. Lewis) (03/14/90)
I've noticed a bunch of X-related questions on this mailing list recently. The X User's Group has been posting monthly to comp.windows.x and comp.windows.misc a fairly useful collection of articles and tidbits. The current version answers the questions below. In particular, note the information on X servers, raster image conversion, troff previewers, postscript displayers, etc: 0) Where can I obtain X source? 1) Where can I obtain X11R4? 2) Where can I obtain Motif? 3) Where can I obtain software implementing Open Look? 4) Where can I obtain other X sources? 5) What is the xstuff mail-archive? 6) Where can I obtain patches to X11R4? 7) Where can I find books and articles on X that are good for beginners? 8) What courses on X are available? 9) Is there a skeleton X program available? 10) What are these common abbreviations? 11) What is XUG? 12) What is the X Consortium and how do I join? 13) What conferences on X are coming up? 14) What is the current state of the world in X terminals? 15) How can I get an X server on a PC? 16) How can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS? 17) Where can I obtain an X-based editor or word-processor? 18) Where can I obtain an X-based paint/draw program? 19) Where can I obtain an X-based spreadsheet? 20) Where can I get a PostScript previewer for X? 21) Where can I get a troff previewer for X? 22) How do I convert Mac/TIFF/GIF/Sun/PICT/Face/img/FAX/etc images to X? 23) How do I use an alternate window manager with DEC's session manager? 24) How do I build X with gcc? 25) What are these funny problems compiling X11R3 on the Sun4? 26) What are these funny problems installing X11R4 on the Sun running SunOS 4? 27) Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation? 28) How can I change the titlebar of my xterm window? 29) Why doesn't anything appear when I run this simple program? 30) What is the difference between a Screen and a screen? 31) Why do I get a BadDrawable error drawing to XtWindow(widget)? 32) Can I get the background pixel/pixmap of a window using XGetWindowAttributes? 33) Why does the pixmap I copy to the screen show up as garbage? 34) Why doesn't my program get the keystrokes I select for? 35) Why does the R3 xterm, et al, fail against the R4 server? 36) Where can I obtain alternate language bindings to Xlib? XUG is at xug@expo.lcs.mit.edu