Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bone.think.com!paperboy.osf.org!june.osf.org!dbl From: dbl@osf.org (David Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers,comp.answers Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1/7 Followup-To: poster Date: 2 Oct 1996 20:15:07 GMT Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 1073 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <52uigb$bs0@paperboy.osf.org> Reply-To: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address) NNTP-Posting-Host: june.osf.org Summary: useful information about the X Window System Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.windows.x:110953 news.answers:83413 comp.answers:21524 Archive-name: x-faq/part1 Last-modified: 1996/09/26 This article and several following contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) often seen in comp.windows.x. It is posted to help reduce volume in this newsgroup and to provide hard-to-find information of general interest. Please redistribute this article! This article includes answers to the following questions, which are loosely grouped into categories. Questions marked with a + indicate questions new to this issue; those with significant changes of content since the last issue are marked by !: 0) TOPIC: BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS 1) What books and articles on X are good for beginners? 2) What courses on X and various X toolkits are available? 3) What conferences on X are coming up? 4)! What X-related public mailing lists are available? 5) How can I meet other X developers? (What X user groups are there?) 6) What related FAQs are available? 7) How do I ask a net-question so as to maximize helpful responses? 8)! What publications discussing X are available? 9) What are these common abbreviations/acronyms? 10) What is the ICCCM? (How do I write X-friendly applications?) 11) What is the X Consortium, and how do I join? 12) Just what are OPEN LOOK and Motif? 13)! What is "low-bandwidth X" (X.fast/LBX)? XRemote? PPP? SLIP? CSLIP? 14)+ TOPIC: X CONSORTIUM FUTURES 15)+ What's the official word from the X Consortium? 16)+ What happens to X? to Broadway? still free? 17)+ Why is this happening? 18)+ Can X11R6.1 be a freeware base? Will future X versions be free? 19) TOPIC: USING X IN DAY-TO-DAY LIFE 20) What are all these window managers? (Where can I get a "virtual" wm?) 21) Why does my X session exit when I kill my window manager (sic)? 22) Can I save the state of my X session, like toolplaces does? 23) How do I use another window manager with DEC's session manager? 24) How do I change the keyboard auto-repeat rate? 25) How do I remap the keys on my keyboard to produce a string? 26) How do I make a screendump or print my application (including menus)? 27) How do I make a color PostScript screendump of the X display? 28) How do I make a screendump without having an X display? 29) How do I make a screendump including the X cursor? 30)! How do I convert or view Mac/TIFF/GIF/Sun/PICT/img/FAX images in X? 31) Where can I get an X-based 3-D object viewer? 32) How can I change the titlebar of my terminal window? 33) Where can I find the xterm control sequences? 34) How can I use characters above ASCII 127 in xterm ? 35) Why are my xterm menus so small (sic) ? 36)! How can I control the mouse with the keyboard? 37) How can I print the current X selection? 38) Where are the resources loaded from? 39) How does Xt use environment variables in loading resources? 40) How to I have xdm put a picture behind the log-in window? 41) Why isn't my PATH set when xdm runs my .xsession file? 42) How do I keep my $DISPLAY when I rlogin to another machine? 43) How can I design my own font? 44) Why does adding a font to the server not work (sic)? 45) How do I convert a ".snf" font back to ".bdf" font? 46) What is a general method of getting a font in usable format? 47) How do I use DECwindows fonts on my non-DECwindows server? 48) How do I get a font name from the structure? 49) How can I set backgroundPixmap in a defaults file? 50) How can I make small multi-color pixmap images? (What is XPM?) 51) Why can't I override translations? Only the first item works. (sic) 52) How can I have a clock show different timezones? 53) I have xmh, but it doesn't work. Where can I get MH? 54) Why am I suddenly unable to connect to my Sun X server? 55) Why don't the R5 PEX demos work on my mono screen? 56) How do I get my Sun Type-[45] keyboard fully supported by Xsun? 57) How do I report bugs in X? 58) Why do I get "Warning: Widget class version mismatch"? 59)! Why does my SPARC 4 with the TCX fail? 60) Why does my SPARC say "Mapping cg3c: No such device or address"? 61) Where can I find a dictionary server for xwebster? 62)! What desktop managers are available? 63) How can I use a Web browser as a help system? 64)+ How can I retrieve resource values from an application? 65) TOPIC: OBTAINING X AND RELATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE 66) Is X public-domain software? 67) How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there? 68)! What is Fresco? When is Fresco rumored to be available? 69) Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8? 70) What is Broadway? 71) Where can I get X11R6.1 (source and/or binaries)? 72) Where can I get X11R6 (source and/or binaries)? 73) Where can I get X11R5 (source and/or binaries)? 74) Where can I get XDM's Wraphelp.c ? 75) Where can I get patches to X11? 76) What is the xstuff mail-archive? 77) Where can I get OSF/Motif? 78) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5? X11R6? 79) Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK? 80) Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications) 81)! Where can I get interesting widgets? 82) Where can I get a good file-selector widget? 83) Where can I find a hypertext widget in source code? 84) What widget is appropriate to use as a drawing canvas? 85) What is the current state of the world in X terminals? 86) Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen? 87) Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)? 88) Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS? 89) Where can I get X for the Amiga? 90) Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home? 91) Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation? 92) Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board? 93) Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50? 94) What terminal emulators other than xterm are available? 95) Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor? 96)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor? 97)! Where can I get an X-based mailer? 98)! Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program? 99) Where can I get an X-based plotting program? 100)! Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program? 101)! Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet? 102) Where can I get X-based project-management software? 103)! Where can I get an X-based PostScript previewer? 104) Where can I get an X-based GKS package? 105) Where can I get an X-based IRIS GL package? 106) Where can I get an X-based OpenGL package? 107) Where can I get an X-based PEX package? 108) Where can I get an X-based TeX or DVI previewer? 109) Where can I get an X-based troff previewer? 110)! Where can I get a WYSIWYG interface builder (or other shortcuts)? 111) Where can I find X tools callable from shell scripts? 112)! Where can I get an X-based debugger? 113) Is there a "pseudo-tty" or fake X display I can use? 114)! How can I "tee" an X program identically to several displays? 115)! Can I use C++ with X11? Motif? XView? 116) Where can I obtain alternate language bindings to X/Xt/Motif? 117)! Where can I obtain alternate X toolkits? 118) TOPIC: BUILDING THE X DISTRIBUTION [topic needs updating to R6] 119) What's a good source of information on configuring the X build? 120) Why doesn't X11R6 work on Solaris with GCC 2.7.0? 121) Why doesn't my Sun with a cg6 work with R5? 122) What are these build problems with Solaris 2.5? 123) Why doesn't my Sun with SunOS 4.1 know about _dlsym, etc.? 124) What is this "_get_wmShellWidgetClass undefined" error? 125) Why don't xterm or xinit work on Solaris 2.4? 126) What's this problem with undefined _X symbols on SunOS 4.1.3? 127) Why does cc get used when I build X11R5 with gcc? 128) What are these I/O errors running X built with gcc? 129) What are these problems compiling the X11R5 server on SunOS 4.1.1? 130) Can OW 3.0 OLIT programs run with R5 Xt? (_XtQString undefined) 131) How do I get around the SunOS 4.1 security hole? 132) How do I get around the frame-buffer security hole? 133) TOPIC: BUILDING X PROGRAMS 134) What is Imake? 135) Where can I get imake? 136) I have a program with an Imakefile but no Makefile. What to do? 137) Why can't I link to the Xlib shape routines? 138) What are these problems with "_XtInherit not found" on the Sun? 139) TOPIC: PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES 140) Why doesn't my program get the keystrokes I select for (sic)? 141) How do I deiconify a window? 142) How do I figure out what window manager is running? 143) Is there a skeleton X program available? 144) How can I incorporate an Xlib program in my Xt program? 145) Why does XtGetValues not work for me (sic)? 146) Why don't XtConfigureWidget/XtResizeWidget/XtMoveWidget work? 147)+ How do I check whether an Xt widget is still valid? 148) Why can't I get data back in my callback procedure? 149) Why isn't there an XtReparentWidget call like XReparentWindow? 150) I'm writing a widget and can't use a float as a resource value. 151) Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 XtDestroyWidget()?! 152) Is this a memory leak in the X11R4 deletion of work procs?! 153) Why does the process size of my X programs go up,up,up? 154) Are callbacks guaranteed to be called in the order registered? 155) Why doesn't XtDestroyWidget() actually destroy the widget? 156) How can I open multiple displays with Xt? 157) How do I query the user synchronously using Xt? 158) How do I determine the name of an existing widget? 159) Why do I get a BadDrawable error drawing to XtWindow(widget)? 160) Where can I get documentation on Xaw, the Athena widget set? 161) What's the difference between actions and callbacks? 162) How do I simulate a button press/release event for a widget? 163) Can I make Xt or Xlib calls from a signal handler? 164)! What are these "Xlib: unexpected async reply" errors? 165) What are these "Xlib sequence lost" errors? 166) How can my Xt program handle socket, pipe, or file input? 167) Why doesn't my Xt timer go off when it is supposed to (sic) ? 168) What's this R6 error: X Toolkit Error: NULL ArgVal in XtGetValues? 169) Why do I get a BadMatch error when calling XGetImage? 170) How can my application tell if it is being run under X? 171) How do I make a "busy cursor" while my application is computing? 172) How do I fork without hanging my parent X program? 173) Why doesn't anything appear when I run this simple program? 174) What is the difference between a Screen and a screen? 175) Can XGetWindowAttributes get a window's background pixel/pixmap? 176) How do I create a transparent window? 177) Why doesn't GXxor produce mathematically-correct color values? 178) Why does every color I allocate show up as black? 179) Why do I get a protocol error when creating a cursor (sic)? 180) Why can't my program get a standard colormap? 181) Why doesn't the shared-memory extension appear to work? 182) Why does the pixmap I copy to the screen show up as garbage? 183) How do I get the width/height of an existing pixmap? 184) How can I most quickly send an image to the X server? 185) How do I check whether a window ID is valid? 186) Can I have two applications draw to the same window? 187) Why can't my program work with tvtwm or swm? 188) Can I rely on a server which offers backing store? 189) How do I catch the "close window" event to avoid "fatal IO error"? 190) How do I keep a window from being resized by the user? 191) How do I keep a window in the foreground at all times? 192) How do I make text and bitmaps blink in X? 193) How do I get a double-click in Xlib? 194) How do I render rotated text? 195) Why doesn't my multi-threaded X program work (sic) ? 196) How can I ensure that only one instance of my application is running? 197) How can I have two applications communicate via the X server? 198) Where can I get information on internationalizing applications? 199) What is the X Registry? (How do I reserve names?) If you have suggestions or corrections for any of these answers or any additional information, please send them directly to uunet!craft!faq; the information will be included in the next revision (or possibly the one after that; thanks for the many suggestions which haven't been incorporated yet). This version of the FAQ is in the process of having outdated information replaced by R6 information. This posting is intended to be distributed monthly. New versions are archived on ftp.x.org (in contrib/faqs) and rtfm.mit.edu and are also available from mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu and archive-server@nic.switch.ch (send "help"). HTML versions seem to be at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/x-faq/top.html. ftp.x.org was previously known as export.lcs.mit.edu; x.org was previously known as expo.lcs.mit.edu. The general WWW server for the X Consortium is http://www.x.org/. The information contained herein has been gathered from a variety of sources. In many cases attribution has been lost; if you would like to claim responsibility for a particular item, please let me know. Conventions used below: telephone numbers tend to be Bell-system unless otherwise noted; prices on items are not included; email addresses are those that work from the US. X Window System and Fresco are trademarks of X Consortium, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This posting is copyright (c) 1996 by David B. Lewis, USA. All rights reserved. Permission is hereby granted to read and distribute this posting for non-commercial purposes. Permission to use this material for any other purpose must first be obtained in writing from the author. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 0) TOPIC: BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 1) What books and articles on X are good for beginners? A bibliography containing cites of all known reference books and how-to manuals and also cites of selected technical articles on X and X programming is regularly posted to comp.windows.x; it is ftp-able as ftp.x.org:/contrib/docs/Xbibliography.ps gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/X11/R5-contrib/Xbibliography. landru.unx.com:/pub/X11/ The current maintainer is Steve Mikes, smikes%topgun@uunet.uu.net (smikes@unx.com). Here is an unordered set of the reference books and tutorials most useful for beginners; most appear on that list [comments are gathered from a variety of places and are unattributable]: Asente, Paul J., and Swick, Ralph R., "X Window System Toolkit, The Complete Programmer's Guide and Specification", Digital Press, 1990. The bible on Xt. A treasury of information, excellent and invaluable. Distributed by Digital Press, ISBN 1-55558-051-3, order number EY-E757E-DP; and by Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-972191-6. Also available through DEC Direct at 1-800-DIGITAL. [The examples are on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/ as asente-swick.examples.tar.Z. They were also posted to comp.sources.x as xt-examples/part0[1-5].] Jones, Oliver, Introduction to the X Window System, Prentice-Hall, 1988, 1989. ISBN 0-13-499997-5. An excellent introduction to programming with Xlib. Written with the programmer in mind, this book includes many practical tips that are not found anywhere else. This book is not as broad as the O'Reilly Xlib tutorial, but Jones is an experienced X programmer and this shows in the quality and depth of the material in the book. Young, Doug. "The X Window System: Applications and Programming with Xt (Motif Version)," Prentice Hall, 1989 (ISBN 0-13-497074-8). The excellent tutorial "X Window System Programming and Applications with Xt," (ISBN 0-13-972167-3) updated for Motif. Sources are on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/young.tar.Z. A Motif 1.2 version of this book is also out; see ftp.x.org in contrib/book_examples/young.motif2.tar.Z. Young, Doug and John Pew, "The X Window System: Programming and Applications with Xt, OPEN LOOK Edition" (ISBN 0-13-982992-X). The tutorial rewritten for OLIT, with new examples and drag/drop information. [Examples are in your OpenWindows 3 distribution in $OPENWINHOME/share/src/olit/olitbook.] Heller, Dan and Paula Ferguson. "Motif Programmers Manual". The 6th volume in the O'Reilly series covers application programming with Motif 1.2 and earlier, including UIL; it's full of good examples (ISBN 1-56592-016-3). Volume 6B is a reference book on Motif and UIL (ISBN ISBN 1-56592-038-4). [The examples are available on uunet in the nutshell archives.] Scheifler, Robert, and James Gettys, with Jim Flowers and David Rosenthal, "X Window System: The Complete Reference to Xlib, X Protocol, ICCCM, XLFD, X Version 11, Release 5, Third Edition," Digital Press, 1992. "The Bible" in its latest revision, an enhanced version of X documentation by the authors of the Xlib documentation. This is the most complete published description of the X programming interface and X protocol. It is the primary reference work and is not introductory tutorial documentation; additional tutorial works will usually be needed by most new X programmers. Digital Press order EY-J802E-DP, ISBN 0-13-971201-1. Nye, Adrian, "Xlib Programming Manual, Volume 1" and "Xlib Reference Manual, Volume 2," O'Reilly and Associates. The first volume is a tutorial with broad coverage of Xlib, and the second contains reference pages for Xlib functions and many useful reference appendices. Both cover X11R5 (and R4). ISBN 0-937175-26-9 (volume 1) and ISBN 0-937175-27-7 (volume 2). Nye, Adrian, and Tim O'Reilly, "X Toolkit Programming Manual, Volume 4," O'Reilly and Associates, 1989, 1992. The folks at O'Reilly give their comprehensive treatment to programming with the Xt Intrinsics, using the Athena widgets in the examples; R5 versions are now available, as is a Motif 1.2 version (Volume 4M). O'Reilly, Tim, ed., "X Toolkit Reference Manual, Volume 5," O'Reilly and Associates. A professional reference manual for the X11R5 and X11R4 Xt. Mansfield, Niall. "The X Window System: A User's Guide," Addison-Wesley, 1989. A tutorial introduction to using X, now upgraded for R4. ISBN 0-201-51341-2. Quercia, Valerie and Tim O'Reilly. "X Window System User's Guide," O'Reilly and Associates. A tutorial introduction to using X. ISBN 0-937175-36-6. Covers R5; available in Athena and Motif editions. Mui, Linda and Eric Pearce. "X Window System Administrator's Guide for X11 R4 and R5" [ORA Volume 8]. Help for X users and administrators. ISBN 0-937175-83-8. Drafts of John Ousterhout's book on TCL/TK are on sprite.berkeley.edu (128.32.150.27) in /tcl. The final book was published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN #0-201-63337-X. (Prentice-Hall ordering is 201-767-5937. O'Reilly ordering is 800-998-9938 or 707-829-0515; ORA may also be contacted via email at order@ora.com or by logging into gopher.ora.com as gopher.) In addition, check the X11R4 and X11R5 core distribution in doc/tutorials for some useful papers and tutorials, particularly the file answers.txt. "Late Night's Top Ten X11 Questions" by Dave Lemke (lemke@ncd.com) and Stuart Marks (smarks@sun.com) answers other common questions and some of these here in more detail. A single volume, "Programmer's Supplement for R5" by David Flanagan, provides an overview of new R5 features; it includes man pages for Xlib, Xt, and Xmu. As of 10/93, its contents have been merged into other O'Reilly volumes, and it is out of print. [ISBN 0-937175-86-2] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 2) What courses on X and various X toolkits are available? An on-line WWW X course is at http://www.cs.curtin.edu.au/units/cg252-502/src/notes/html/ Another is at: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk:80/~aug/FastTrack/ Motif tutorials are at: http://www.iftech.com AT&T offers training in Xlib and in the Xol set. Contact AT&T Corporate Education & Training for more info; 1-800-TRAINER in the USA. BIM Educational Services offers training in X administration and in programming with Xt/Motif and Open Windows; the courses are given near Brussels. Info: edu@sunbim.be, voice +32-(0)2-7595925, fax +32-(0)2-7599209. Bluestone Consulting, Inc. offers several multi-day, hands-on training courses in X, Xt, Motif, C, C++, and UIM/X. Information is available at 609-727-4600 or blustone!info@uunet.uu.net. Communica Software Consultants offers three-day hands-on courses in X designed for the X Window System developer and programmer. Contact Chris Clarkson, telephone 61 8 3732523, e-mail communica@communica.oz.au. [12/92] Cora Computer Technologies (516-485-7343) offers several courses. GHCT offers a one week lecture/lab course for programmers designed by Douglas Young based on his book "The X Window System: Programming and Applications with Xt, OSF/Motif Edition". Information: Brian Stell (415-966-8805 or ghct!brian@sgi.com). GHG offers a range of courses on X and Motif. Information: 713-488-8806 or training-info@ghg.hou.tx.us. Hands On Learning has live training and self-paced video workshops on topics such as using and/or programming X, Xlib, Xm, and Xt. Information: 617-272-0088, 800-248-9133. Hewlett-Packard (1-800-HPCLASS; or contact your local HP center) offers a 2-day "Introduction to X", a 5-day Xlib course, a 1-day Xt and Motif 1.1 seminar, and a 5-day Motif lab course. Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., offers several multi-day, hands-on courses on X, Xt, and the Xaw and Motif widget sets, in particular. Information is available at 617-621-0060 and info@ics.com. Intelligent Visual Computing teaches several lab courses on-site for Motif and XView. IVC is at 1-800-776-2810 or +1 919-481-1353 or at info@ivc.com. Iris Computing Laboratories offers five-day Xlib and Xt courses. Info: +1-505-988-2670 or info@spectro.com. IXI Limited (+44 223 462 131) offers regular X training courses for both programmers and non-technical managers. See also: Unipalm, below. Learning Tree International offers a four-day course in X Window System applications development, including Xlib and some information on Motif. For more info call 800-824-9155 (213-417-3484); 613-748-7741 in Canada. Courses are offered in major North American cities; also in London, Stockholm, Tokyo, and elsewhere. Lurnix offers several 3- to 5-day courses on using X and programming with Xlib and Motif. Information is available at 800-875-4478. Non Standard Logics (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers courses on programming with Xlib, Motif, and creating Motif widgets. OSF Educational Services (617-621-8778) offers one-day seminars and one-week Motif lab courses. John A. Pew offers a 5-day course on OLIT, possibly based on his book on that subject; 408-224-5739. SCO (+44 923 816344, scol-info@sco.COM) offers training for its Open Desktop (Motif) environment in the UK and Europe. Software Pundits (617-270-0639) offers a range of courses. Technology Exchange (617-944-3700) offers a 4-day Xlib/Xt/Motif course. Alsys (formerly TeleSoft) is now offering a 1-day plus 3-day seminar on X and Motif. Information: Bruce Sherman (619-457-2700, bds@telesoft.com). Unipalm XTech offers OSF's 5-day Motif course and a 1-day overview on X. Information: Unipalm Training at +44 952 211797, xtech@unipalm.co.uk. The University of Edinburgh is developing a series of courses on X and related topics primarily for non-profit-making training in academia but also for commercial use. Information: Cliff Booth, Unipalm Ltd, phone +44 223 420002, fax +44 223 426868. Various other vendors are also beginning to offer X training, usually specific to a proprietary toolkit or to Xt and a proprietary widget set: DEC is offering Xlib courses; Sun offers an XView course. Various universities are offering short X courses or overviews: UCLA, Dartmouth, University of Lowell, University of Canberra (within Australia: 062-522422), UC Santa Cruz Extension (408-281-4823, mark@t4p.com) ... Among the best places to find courses are at the various Unix conferences -- Uniforum, Usenix, Unix Expo, the X Technical Conference, the ACM tutorial weeks, &c. In addition, the X Consortium posts approximately quarterly a list of unendorsed speakers and consultants who can provide talks on a variety of X topics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 3) What conferences on X are coming up? The fourth annual Tcl/Tk workshop, sponsored by the USENIX Association, was to be held July 10-13, 1996 in Monterey, California, to bring together current Tcl/Tk researchers and practitioners and to plan for future work. Information: USENIX Conference Office 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613 Lake Forest CA 92630 (714) 588-8649 Fax: (714) 588-9706 email: conference@usenix.org URL: http://www.usenix.org The European X User Group holds an annual conference which typically includes includes paper presentations and a vendor exhibit; the conference is usually held in October. Information: EXUG '94, PO Box 458, Cambridge, CB4 4AA Tel: 0954 789095, Fax: 0954 781797, Email: info@exug.demon.co.uk, WWW: http://www.nads.de/EXUG/ . The X Technical Conference includes tutorials and technical talks. It is now held in February in San Jose, CA. Registration information is available from conference@x.org, 617-374-1025. Other information is typically on ftp.x.org in /pub/DOCS/XConsortium/ (also available via http://www.x.org ). The XWorld Conference and Exhibition includes tutorials, panels, presentations and vendor exhibits. It is typically held in March in New York City. Information: SIGS Publication Group at 212-274-9135; information on XWorld95 is available via http://www.sigs.com/conferences/xw95/xw95main.html . The Motif/CDE show is held each year in Washington, DC, around the time of FedUnix. It offers courses, tutorials and paper presentations. Information: +1 301-596-8800, fax +1 301-596-8803, http://www.mcsp.com/OSW-FedUNIX . Registration material can be obtained from oswinfo@mcsp.com. The Xhibition conference is cancelled for 1996; no other plans have been announced (by xhibit@ics.com). The Andrew Technical Conference was to be held September 21-22, 1995 in Pittsburgh. Info: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~AUIS/cfp.html . Other trade shows -- UnixExpo, Uniforum, Siggraph -- show an increasing presence of X, including tutorials and exhibits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 4)! What X-related public mailing lists are available? The xpert mailing list is the general, public mailing list on X maintained by the X Consortium. The mailings are gatewayed, so xpert is almost identical to the comp.windows.x Usenet newsgroup. *** If you get comp.windows.x, you don't need to *** *** be added to the xpert mailing list. *** Otherwise, you can join the list to receive X information electronically. It is best to find a local distribution; perhaps someone within your company is already receiving the mailing. As a last resort, send mail to xpert-request@x.org with a valid return electronic address. 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