[comp.windows.x] menu question

Douglas.Tomm@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU.UUCP (03/23/87)

I'm new to x programming, so please forgive what may seem a moronic question.
I'm writing an application in which I want to use menus.  For some reason,
the (only) call to XMenuCreate returns NULL.  The exact call to this function
is

	if ((mymenu = XMenuCreate(RootWindow, argv[0])) == NULL)
		[bail out of program]

The man page on menus says 
that a connection to the x server must be open.  I tried putting a call
to XGrabServer() before XMenuCreate, but that didn't help.  How can I get
it to work?  Also, what exactly is meant by the term 'x server'?

thanx in advance,
doug tomm