raveling@VAXA.ISI.EDU (Paul Raveling) (09/01/87)
In the process of tidying up our local nonstandard X10.4 clients, as used on HP Bobcats, I've extracted three which may be of some value to other X users. They're available for FTP by anonymous login from VAXA.ISI.EDU from subdirectories of pub/X. These three clients are... isiuwm Variant of uwm, almost compatible with standard uwm xload Variant of xload, compatible with standard xload xsetmap Small program to set and hold color map entries isiuwm differs from uwm in its use of mouse keys. It uses only "click" operations, rather than the hold-drag-release operations which I found relatively cumbersome and error-prone. xload allows a couple variations on the text it displays. One is a slogan from .Xdefaults (instead of host name); Another is a "New Mail @ <time>" note which pops up in place of the host name or slogan. xsetmap allocates (sharable) color map entries for colors listed in .Xdefaults. We've used this with 4-plane displays to enforce an "ideal" color map. At least it avoided various embarassments in demoing map images that can look like rubbish without some particular color. For more info, there's a README file for each of these. --------------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu