kburgess@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Burgess RCD) (11/03/89)
Does anyone know of an intellegent xclock program, which would containg an alarm clock, and possibly a configuration file to set dates and appts for alarms and messages. It would also be nice to configure it in with a calendar program for a full desktop manager. I know Im asking alot, but it sure would be nice to see a utility like that. On another point, does anyone have the source to xbounce, the gravity program for window??? thanks ken. Ken Burgess kburgess@ames.arc.nasa.gov Nasa-Ames Research Center (415)-694-6347
lohr@wsqtb8.crd.ge.com (P. J. Lohr) (11/04/89)
In article <3677@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> kburgess@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Burgess RCD) writes: >Does anyone know of an intellegent xclock program, which would >containg an alarm clock, and possibly a configuration file to set >dates and appts for alarms and messages. It would also be nice to >configure it in with a calendar program for a full desktop >manager. Good news: There's a very nice one which does all the things you ask called dxcalendar Bad news: It is part of, and only runs under DECWindows. I haven't yet seen anything public domain which comes close. Phil Lohr lohr@crd.ge.com uunet!crd.ge.com!lohr
ron@xwind.UUCP (Ronald P. Hughes) (11/05/89)
In article <3677@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, kburgess@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Burgess RCD) writes: > Does anyone know of an intellegent xclock program, which would > containg an alarm clock, and possibly a configuration file to set > dates and appts for alarms and messages. It would also be nice to > configure it in with a calendar program for a full desktop > manager. There is a fantastic new multiuser calendaring program called Synchronize, available from CrossWind Technologies. It does all that you want, plus a whole lot more. For more information contact Chris Knudsen (chris@xwind.com) at 408-335-4988. Ronald P. Hughes ron@xwind.com (or ...!uunet!xwind!ron) DISCLAIMER: I have a significant interest in CrossWind, so draw your own conclusions. TODAY'S QUOTE: "The best X program I've ever seen!" (my mom)
bchen@everywhere.Berkeley.EDU (Benjamin Chen) (11/06/89)
Bad news: It is part of, and only runs under DECWindows.
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I hate to nitpick, but dxcalendar does not
need dxwm (DECwindows) to run, but is probably hard to come by
if you haven't purchased the DECwindows license.
BCswatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) (11/13/89)
More bad news: dxclock was written with UIL, and hence takes up almost 1.3MB!!!! (Almost 2MB on a DECStation 3100!) No problem, right? Mutter about virtual memory and paging and neat things like that... It takes 20 seconds of paging to EXPOSE the thing after it has paged out... Unfortunately, my company is doing a project that uses UIL, and has almost a dozen UIL apps running at once... Very painful to wait for something that big to page in... Anybody know of a nice way to do shared libraries? Steve Watt swatt@cup.portal.com ...!ucbvax!sun!cup.portal.com!swatt
klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) (11/15/89)
In article <24003@cup.portal.com>, swatt@cup.portal.com (Steven Edward Watt) writes: > More bad news: dxclock was written with UIL, and hence takes up almost > 1.3MB!!!! (Almost 2MB on a DECStation 3100!) No problem, right? Mutter > about virtual memory and paging and neat things like that... > > Anybody know of a nice way to do shared libraries? One way to fake shared libraries is to take advantage of UNIX's (and Ultrix's) shared text capability. Try linking a bunch of your UIL programs together and they'll share the text of the Xt, Xlib, and UIL libraries. DECwindows dxclock, for example, is linked with dxcalendar and some others. The real memory use is much smaller than the 1.3MB you mention. Other commonly used DECwindows programs, such as dxsession, dxterm, and dxwm, are also linked together. The links are both disk hard links (try "ls -i" on /usr/bin) and ld compile-time links. This isn't a cure all, but may save you some disk and memory. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee