comp.windows.x.apps FAQ
Herein lie frequently asked questions (and the answers) that are
posted to comp.windows.x.apps, a group
dedicated to the discussion of applications that run under the X
Window System.
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New Entries
- I: More mirrors to X Consortium's archive, http
URL for Sunsite (Oct 16, 1995)
- II: Wily (Oct 13, 1995)
- XIV: XAnim & snapshot(Oct 11, 1995)
- XII: ImageMagick, xwpick (Oct 10, 1995)
- UPDATED ENTRIES:
- III: xrn 8.00(Nov 12, 1995)
- IX: Yahoo link(Nov 2, 1995)
- Tcl/Tk URL for man-pages, intro tutorial (Oct 14, 1995)
- III: Xemacs snapshots (Oct 10, 1995)
- III: Gnus 5.0 (Oct 5, 1995)
- MISC:
- Questions now marked with H3 rather then H2(Nov 4,
1995)
- The whole FAQ moved to ftp site because the number of hits
on the doc. were causing problems with our server
(Oct 13, 1995)
- "New" tags removed for Xdiary & Xwpe (Oct 5,1995)
- The X Consortium's contrib ftp site
- X11R6 distribution (standard X & contrib manifest)
- comp.sources.x newsgroup and archives
- HP/UX Archive Centres (great for keyword-based searches)
- Sunsite
- GNU Emacs
- XEmacs (previously known as Lucid Emacs)
- aXe
- xcoral
- asedit
- Misc. Tcl/Tk editors
- sam
- wily
- vile/xvile
- NEdit
- ce (time-limited binaries; unconditional Linux binary)
- xwpe (see IV, below)
- Gnus (with Emacs)
- xrn
- mxrn (Motif)
- xvnews (OpenLook)
- Netscape (Web-browser)
- nn-tk (tcl/tk)
- tknews (tcl/tk)
- arTCLs (tcl/tk)
- Knews
- xxgdb, xdbx (gdb/dbx front-ends)
- ups
- tgdb (shareware, with source; tcl/tk)
- ddd (Motif front-end to gdb/dbx)
- xwpe
- xcal
- xkal
- ical (tcl/tk)
- calentool (OpenLook)
- k-lenders
- plan (Motif)
- xdiary (Motif)
- xfig
- tgif
- picasso (tcl/tk)
- fvwm (mwm-like (workspaces & virtual desktop))
- piewm (twm based)
- tvtwm (twm based)
- vtwm (twm based)
- olvwm (OpenLook)
- ctwm (twm based (workspaces))
- comp.software-eng FAQ
- xpm-3 distribution
- Anthony's X Icon Library
- Really Humungous Library of Icons
- Tony's Icon Collection
- Erin's Icon Collection
- Building Blocks and Icons
- Graphic Element Samples
- Yahoo's Archive
- xpaint
- pixmap
- ediff (for emacs or xemacs)
- mgdiff (Motif)
- tkdiff (tcl/tk)
- xv (3.x is shareware, with source)
- xwpick
- ImageMagick
- xmail
- xmh
- exmh (tcl/tk)
- ml (Motif)
- XAnim
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Fernandes. NON-COMMERCIAL distribution and reproduction is permitted
on the condition that this copyright message appear unchanged and in
its entirety.
Version 1 Release 1 of this FAQ, was compiled entirely from within
GNU Emacs 19.23 (on a lazy Sunday afternoon, sometime in July '94
(via a VT100-terminal dialup yet!)). GNUS was used to access relevant
USENET FAQ's in news.answers and the ange-ftp and crypt++ packages
made it possible to visit the README's of the various packages
mentioned, at ftp sites around the world, after searching for them
with archie (from within emacs, of course).
The hyper-FAQ (Release 1.8) was marked-up from the original
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package.
The plain-text version of this FAQ is now generated from the
hyper-FAQ, with the html-to-ascii
perl-script written by James R. Davis.
The hyper-FAQ is updated when I have the time. The text version of
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Luis Fernandes
Last modified: Sun Nov 12 14:15:30 EST 1995
(Op-Ed: If at all possible, try not to ftp large packages during
prime-time (08:00 - 18:00 ftp-site local-time) so as not to load-down
the computing resources at the sites that graciously make these
facilities available. Also, try to use a ftp-server that is
geographically near your own site.
Now, I don't expect everyone to stay-up past their bed-time just to
ftp a package in the middle of the night. I have some nifty
shell-scripts to perform unattended ftp'ing using cron(1). If anyone
wants a copy of these scripts, mail me a note and I will mail them off
to you) or you can download them directly from here (21K shar-file).
-
GNU
Emacs, an extensible, customizable real-time display editor, is The
One True Editor. It was developed and is maintained by Richard
Stallman. It offers true Lisp--smoothly integrated into the
editor--for writing extensions, and provides an interface to the X
Window System (it works equally well on a dumb-terminal (VT100,
etc.)).
In addition to its powerful native command set, extensions which
emulate other popular editors (vi, EDT (DEC's VMS editor) Wordstar,
and Gosling (aka Unipress) Emacs) are distributed. An extermely short
list of features making emacs a full computing-support environment
include: pull-down menus, multiple fonts, multiple windows with
multiple views into the same file, on-the-fly syntax highliting for
various languages including C.
Users seeking help or guidance with using or installing Emacs can post
queries (after consulting the GNU Emacs FAQ
(please!)) to gnu.emacs.help (a
mailing-list gatewayed to USENET), comp.emacs.xemacs and comp.emacs. (alt.religion.emacs offers support
for the truly devout seeking enlightenment.)
User contributed additions in the form of LISP packages (games
(tetris), PIM's, databases, calendars, mailers, etc.) are available
from the definitive LISP archive:
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/
GNU Emacs (or sometimes, a less feature-laden derivative) is
available for ever system on this earth; the latest version of GNU
Emacs is 19.29 and (along with other GNU utilities) is available for
ftp at various GNU archive sites
around the world.
What's GNU? GNU's Not Unix!
(Note that various media, containing all the sources (of course) and
pre-compiled binaries (all major platforms) of all their applications
(emacs, gcc, gdb, gnuchess, etc.) and utilities (groff, flex, gmake,
etc.) in addition to the latest release of X), may be ordered from the
Free Software Foundation (for more information, send email to
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or refer to the order form
(ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/ORDERS)).
William Smith has made the source and binaries for GNU EMACS version
19.29 available via ftp on:
das.wang.com:/ftp/wjs/gnu/emacs
Binaries (built with R5 Athena Widgets) are avilable for:
- IBM RS6000 3.2.0-3.2.5 with X11R4 or X11R5;
- HP-UX 9.00-9.04 series 800 with X11R5;
- Solaris 2.3 with X11R5;
- SCO 3.2.4.0 (ODT 2.0) - 3.2.4.2 (ODT 3.0) with X11R5; and
- MSDOG (oemacs 4.1 GNU Emacs 19.19).
-
XEmacs 19.13, formerly Lucid
Emacs 19.10, developed by Jamie Zawinski, is
derived from GNU Emacs version 19. Pre-compiled binaries are
available for most popular platforms; the reader is encouraged to
check-out the XEmacs home-page for details about
the specific files to retrive.
Some of its popular features include:
- TTY (dumb terminal) support (includes face support);
- built-in toolbar and support to many packages;
- the ability to embed pixmaps (glyphs) of arbitrary size in a buffer;
- use of variable width fonts;
- on a machine with audio hardware, XEmacs can play sound files
instead of the default X beep;
- embedding an X window in a buffer in the same way as a pixmap;
external programs (such as GhostScript, or an MPEG player) can
then render arbitrary graphics on that window.
The latest version is available for ftp from the canonical
distribution point:
cs.uiuc.edu:/pub/xemacs
Since cs.uiuc.edu has a 20-user limit on ftp connections, you are advised
to get it from one of the following mirror sites:
- aXe (an X editor) was developed by Jim Wight. It is a simple to
use text editor that represents a significant improvement over xedit.
Built around the Athena Text Widget it features, amongst other things:
- multiple windows and multiple buffers;
- menu interface with configurable menus;
- parenthesis matching, keyboard macros and regexp searching;
- restricted or unlimited undo;
- ability to change font;
- hypertext on-line help.
The latest version of aXe, 6.1.2, is avaliable for ftp from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/editors/
aXe-6.1.2.tar.Z
- xcoral, developed by Lionel Fournigault, Bruno
Pages and Dominique Leveque is a multi-window text editor. It
features:
- a built-in browser to navigate through C functions and C++
classes, methods and files;
- a built-in ANSI C interpreter to dynamically extend
user functions, key bindings, modes etc;
- variable-width fonts and colour syntax hilighting;
- menus, scrollbars, buttons, kill-buffers, search, macros, undo
regions, and a online manual;
- commands are accessible from either menus or keyboard;
- RCS interface and ability to run Unix commands (make, grep, etc.).
The latest version of xcoral, 2.4, is available for ftp at:
ftp.inria.fr:/X/contrib-R5/clients/xcoral-2.4.tar.Z
bode.ee.ualberta.ca:/pub/unix/HPUX/hpux9/Editors/
dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl:/pub/other_sites/dutepp0/Unix/Editors/
ftp.csis.dit.csiro.au:/pub/SEG/jon/
lune.csc.liv.ac.uk:/hpux9/Editors/
- asedit, developed by Andrzej Stochniolis, is a text editor built
around the Motif text widget. It includes support for the following
languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese and
Swedish. All commands and messages are localized for each language;
the context sensitive, hypertext on-line help, however, is only
available in English. It features:
- multiple editing windows with "point and click" interface;
- drag and drop support (Motif 1.2 and above);
- multiple undo and redo of edits;
- user customizable commands and filters;
- support for emacs keyboard bindings.
Version 1.3 of asedit (International Free Release) is available for
ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/editors/asedit-1.3.tar.Z
src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/packages/X11-contrib/editors/asedit-1.3.tar.Z
- Refer to part 4 of the comp.lang.tcl
FAQ for an extensive list of editors that have been written with
Tcl/Tk. The latest version of the FAQ is always available for
ftp from:
ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/docs/tcl-faq.part04.gz
- sam, developed by Rob Pike, is a hybrid command-oriented/GUI
multi- file editor for AT&T's Plan 9, that has been ported
to X.
sam was developed as an editor for use by programmers, and tries to
join the styles of the Unix text editor ed(1) with that
of interactive cut and paste editors by providing a comfortable
mouse-driven interface to a program with a solid command-language
driven by regular expressions.
sam extends the regular expression paradigm beyond line-oriented ASCII
files by introducing "structural regular expressions", which can partition
a file into arbitrary textual units.
sam supports the UTF-8 file-format-- an 8-bit encoding of the 16 bit
Unicode character set which has nice properties like ASCII being
preserved. This feature allows sam to simultaneously represent
multiple languages in a single file. Although full Unicode support is
unavailable, sam's flexibility with international text is still beyond
that of most text editors.
The latest version of sam is available for ftp from:
research.att.com:/dist/sam
- wily
(The Wile E. Interface), developed by Gary Capell, provides much
of the feel of Acme, the Plan 9 editor. Wily (and acme(1))
integrates some of the functions of editor, window manager, file
browser and shell, as well as providing an interface for external
programs such as mail and news readers.
The latest version of wily, is available at:
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~gary/hobby/wily/wily.tgz
- vile/xvile, (VI Like Emacs), developed by Paul Fox,
is a vi workalike put together from Micro-Emacs. It works in an xterm
(vile) and as a true X client (xvile).
vile features:
- multi-file editing and viewing (split-screen windows);
- keyboard macros (:map, :map!, :abbr);
- infinite undo;
- rectangular operations;
- man-page and C syntax highlighting;
- built-in macro language;
- "next error" cursor positioning after compilation;
- vi operations on selected regions.
xvile features all the features of vile and additionally:
- scrollbars and more complete mouse integration;
- on-the-fly font change;
- selection highlighting.
vile and xvile build (for for VAX (VMS & alpha)) from the same
package; the latest version, 5.2, is available for ftp at:
id.wing.net:/pub/pgf/vile
There's also a pre-built DOS executable (vile52b.zip) available
(requires a 386 or better). The author maintains a mailing list; if
you wish to be added to the list, send email to
<pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us>.
- NEdit,
developed by Mark Edel, is a GUI editor for X/Motif-based Unix and VMS
systems.
Nedit features:
- multi-window, mouse based editing;
- multi-level undo;
- comprehensive on-line help;
- auto-indent and block indentation adjustment;
- parenthesis flashing and matching;
- finding lines directly from compiler error output;
- Unix ctags support.
Nedit has been tested on Silicon Graphics, Sun (Solaris & SunOS), HP,
OSF/1, DEC Ultrix, IBM AIX, and VMS systems.
The latest version, 3.1, is available for ftp at:
ftp.fnal.gov:/pub/nedit/v3_1_1/nedit_source.tar.Z
ftp.x.org:/contrib/editors/nedit/nedit_source.tar.Z
Pre-built binaries for the mentioned architectures are available in:
ftp.fnal.gov:/pub/nedit/v3_1_1
- ce, developed by Enabling Technologies Group, is a full-screen,
text editor that was originally developed for users migrating from
Apollo's Domain environment and was modelled after the Display
Manager editor. It features:
- multiple edit sessions;
- rectangular cut & paste;
- global bounded search and replace;
- coordinated mouse and text cursor control;
- command macros;
- unlimited UNDO & REDO;
- customized keyboard mapping;
- automatic file backup and save.
ce is available for IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, Sun SunOS &
Solaris, HP Apollo Domain/OS, DEC OSF/1 & Ultrix, SGI IRIX, and
Linux.
Evaluation binaries, that normally expire 30-60 days after
downloading (see the README file for more details), are available
for various platforms, at:
ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/ETG/
Note: The Linux version of ce has no expiration. It is a
FREE copy.
- xwpe, developed by Fred Kruse, is a programming environment
similar to the Borland C++ or Turbo Pascal IDE; the difference being
that, unlike the Borland IDE, different compilers and linkers may be
invoked. See Question IV for details.
-
Gnus 5.0 (threaded)
if you have Emacs 19.25+ or XEmacs (toolbar support is included), developed
by Lars Magne
Ingebrigtsen.
Gnus 5.0 is designed to be a drop-in replacement, and thus fully
compatible, with GNUS 4.x (developed by Masanobu UMEDA). Almost all
key bindings have been kept. More key bindings have been added, of
course, but only in one or two obscure cases have old bindings been
changed.
Additional Gnus 5.0
Resources, like the Gnus FAQ, mailing-list archive, etc. are also
available.
Gnus 5.0 features:
- the ability to subscribe to groups from different servers and
the ability to mix groups from spools, nntp servers and mail
backends;
- mail reading; currently implemented mail backends can read
mbox files, an mh-like spool and a mail spool with NOV databases;
- infinite customizability;
- kill-files feature auto-expiring kill calls;
- scoring of articles in various ways and kill files that
auto-expire;
- virtual newsgroups (groups composed of several other groups);
- foreign servers, which gives you an easy way to subscribe to
foreign groups;
- asynchronous article pre-fetch;
- adaptive scoring scheme for types of articles read most often.
Gnus is available at:
- xrn (not threaded) is a
NNTP-based newsreader, developed by Ellen M. Sentovich & Rick
L. Spickelmier (now maintained by Jonathan I. Kamens), is based on rn
(a termcap-based news-reader written by the reverend Larry Wall); it
is popular with novice users and looks rather elegant when compiled
with the 3D Athena Widgets developed by formidable Kaleb
Keithley.
The latest version 8.00, is available for ftp from:
ftp://ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/xrn/xrn-8.00.tgz
ftp://remote-access.cam.ov.com:/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz
A mailing-list dedicated to announcements of new releases and bugs can
be subscribed to by sending mail to
<xrn-users-request@cam.ov.com>.
- mxrn (not threaded)
Motif-based NNTP news reader that has had part of the functionality of
`rn' added since a number of users are `rn' users. Much of the `rn'
functionality that mxrn currently has was not in the original plan;
e.g. kill-files.
The latest version is 6.18, but 6.17 seems to be the only one widely
available for ftp at the following sites:
geocub.greco-prog.fr:/pub/X11/mxrn.tar.Z
sun.soe.clarkson.edu:/pub/src/mxrn/
-
xvnews (not
threaded) is a simple, intuitive Open-LOOK compliant NNTP-based
newsreader that uses the XView libraries.
The latest release, 2.3, is available for ftp from:
ftp.twi.tudelft.nl:/pub/news/xvnews-2.3.tar.gz
ftp.uu.net:/networking/news/readers/xvnews/xvnews-2.3.tar.gz.
- Netscape is a Web-browser, developed by Mosaic Communications
(now called something else entirely and mostly consisting of the
developers of the popular NCSA
Xmosaic Web-browser), that has a threaded news-reader
built-in.
Netscape is available from the Mosaic Comm. home-page at:
http://www.mcom.com
or via ftp at:
ftp://ftp.mcom.com.
-
nn-tk, developed by Toivo Pedaste, is based on the NN newsreader (NN
commands should still work). nn-tk provides a GUI interface with
command menus and buttons, the use of the mouse to select articles, a
scrolling panel for displaying articles and group selection using
either of scrolling panel or cascading menus. Support for MIME
messages if EXMH is installed.
The latest version is available for ftp from:
ftp.uwa.edu.au:/pub/nn/contrib/nn-tk.beta.12.1.tar.gz
- tknews, is a Tcl/Tk-based news reader. Available for anonymous
ftp from:
ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/code/tknews.1.2b.tar.gz
- arTCLs is a Tcl/Tk-based news reader. Available for anonymous
ftp from:
ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/code/artcls.tar.gz
- Knews (threaded), developed by Karl-Johan Johnsson, features:
- true threading, with a graphical tree for the threads;
- full support for reading MIME articles;
- regexp searching in articles and the newsgroups;
- options to skip the active file or group descriptions on
startup;
- fontification (colours & fonts) for quoted text and headers
in articles;
- support for multiple nntp servers;
- kill-file support;
- articles, subjects and threads can be killed or marked with
color based on various criteria;
- tagging of articles and saving, uudecoding or piping them.
The latest version, 0.9.2, is available at:
http://www.matematik.su.se/users/kjj/knews-0.92.tar.gz
- An excellent C source-level debugger is gdb 4.13, the GNU
debugger. gdb may either be used as a stand-alone debugger or nicely
integrated, from within Emacs itself. It can be found at any GNU archive site.
xxgdb is an
X front-end to the gdb debugger. Some people prefer using gdb through
this front-end rather than via the command-line. xdbx is an X
front-end to the the popular dbx(1) debugger; xxgdb, xdbx, etc. are
available for ftp from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xxgdb-1.11.tar.gz
ftp://bash.cc.keio.ac.jp/pub/mirror/X11-contrib/R5/xxgdb.108.tar.gz
colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk:/export/X11R5/Misc-contrib/xdbx
colonsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk:/export/X11R5/Misc-contrib/mxgdb
- ups is
another source-level C debugger, developed by Mark Russell, that runs
either under X or Sunview (which is rather irrelevant now). It also
comes with its own theme song! Ups includes a C interpreter which
allows you to add fragments of code simply by editing them into the
source window (the source file itself is not modified). This lets you
add debugging printf calls without recompiling, relinking
(or even restarting) the target program.
ups is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/R5contrib/ups-2.45.2.tar.Z
The theme-song is available from:
ftp.x.org:/R5contrib/ups-song.au
- tgdb is a Tcl/Tk-based GUI front-end to the
gdb debugger with similarities to commercial debuggers such as
Borland's "Turbo debugger" or MicroSoft's "CodeView". Some of its
features include:
- setting and deleting breakpoints, listing source code,
displaying variables;
- direct command line interface to gdb, including command
line completion, and command history;
- windows, which display the CPU registers, memory,
auto-display (watch) variables and expressions, the current
stack frames, etc.;
- an assembly dump window, which allows the display of
machine instructions, scrolling through the application's code
and debugging at the assembler level.
The latest version, 1.1, is available for ftp from:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/debuggers/tgdb-1.1.src.tgz
Pre-built binaries are available from:
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/tgdb-1.1.src.tgz
-
ddd,
developed by the DDD Development Team, is a Motif user interface to
gdb and dbx which, features:
- data structures are displayed graphically;
- debugging of programs written in C, C++, Pascal, or Modula-2;
- hypertext source navigation and lookup;
- gdb/dbx command-line interface;
- on-line context-sensitive help;
- debugging on remote host.
The latest version, 1.2, is available for ftp from:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/ddd-1.2.tar.gz
Pre-compiled binaries (for Sun, Linux, etc.) are available for ftp
from:
ftp://ftp.ips.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/local/softech/ddd/bin/
Note: a C++ compiler (e.g. g++) is required to compile ddd
-
xwpe, developed by Fred Kruse, is a programming environment similar
to the Borland C++ or Turbo Pascal IDE; the difference being that,
unlike the Borland IDE, different compilers and linkers may be
invoked. It features, among other things:
- jumping to compilation errors directly from compilation
errors;
- built-in editor with pull-down menu, search and replace
function (including regular expressions) and a file-manager,
and "project-file" support;
- running the program and debugger from within the
Programming Environment and setting break-points;
- viewing variables within a Watch Window.
xwpe can also be used as a simple editor (when run as 'xwe')
without the programming environment, and may be run under vt100
terminals as 'we'.
The latest version, 1.4.2, is available for ftp at:
ftp://softdis.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/systems/unix/xwpe/xwpe-1.4.2.tar.Z
-
xcal, written by Peter Collinson, is an interactive calendar program,
meant as a companion to the xclock program. It features:
- "today"'s appointments inspector;
- calendar file for today and seven daily regular commitments;
- memos.
xcal is available at any comp.sources.x archive (See Question 1).
-
xkal, developed by George Ferguson, is a graphical appointment
calendar that allows you to maintain many types of reminders (system,
personal (with colour-coded criticality levels)), displays them in
several different formats, and allows you to add and edit them.
Silent and non-graphic modes are provided to allow xkal to be used to
check for appointments without interaction.
The latest version, 1.20, is available at:
ftp://ftp.uni-trier.de/pub/unix/X11/R5/contrib/clients/xkal/xkal-1.20.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.physik.uni-muenchen.de/a/tum3.leo.org/archive/isar/.mntpts/tum.info-pub3/pub/comp/X11/contrib/clients/xkal/xkal-1.20.tar.Z
- ical, developed
by Sanjay Ghemawat, is a calendar manager featuring:
- appointments or notices can be added or deleted and
can be made to repeat in various ways;
- post reminders for upcoming appointments, print and list item
occurrences;
- share calendars amongst different users.
Release 2.0 of ical is designed to work with Tk4.0. If you are
using older versions of Tcl/Tk, you will need to upgrade.
See the Appendix, for information about obtaining
Tcl/Tk.
The latest version of ical can be ftp'd from:
ftp.aud.alcatel.com:/tcl/code/ical-2.0.tar.gz
ftp.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/sanjay/common/ical-2.0.tar.Z
-
calentool, developed by Bill Randle, is a day/week/month/year-
at-glance tool. It also features recurring appointments (e.g every
Monday or every 1st & 3rd Tuesday), as well as a reminder of future
appointments. calentool also permits other user's schedules to be
accessed and also provides interesting information about the sun and
moon.
The interface uses XView (2.X or 3.X) to present an Open Look style
user interface (including the Help key!).
The latest version of calentool, 2.3X, is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/office/calentool-2.3.tar.gz
- k-lendars, developed by Jean-Michel Leon, is a
multi-user/multi-calendar diary with a Motif interface. Multi-user
functionality, is optional and k-lendars may be used in single-user
mode with one or more calendars.
Requires procmail, slocal, etc. for multi-user communications.
The latest version, 1.2, is available for ftp at:
ftp://avahi.inria.fr:/pub/k-lendars-1.2.tar.gz
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/k-lendars-1.2.tar.gz
- plan, developed by Thomas Driemeyer, is a Motif-based calendar
and group scheduler application.
The latest version, is available for ftp at:
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/graphics/plan
-
XDiary, developed by Roger Larsson, is a personal organizer that
combines the functions of a desktop calendar, an appointment book and
an alarm clock; it can also be used as a group calendar to plan
meetings, distribute information to specific groups etc. It
features:
- A calendar with a month view;
- a day view where entries can be defined, moved, changed
and removed;
- an appointment editor for entering appointments, making
notes and defining alarms;
- the ability to print selected parts of the diary on any
ASCII or PostScript printer;
- an access control window to allow people access to your
calendar(s);
- various tools to write scripts that access the XDiary
calendars.
The latest version, 3.0 is available for ftp at:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/office/xmdiary-3.0.tar.gz
- xfig
(Facility for Interactive Generation of figures), originally written
by Supoj Sutanthavibul, is a menu-driven drawing program that may be
used to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X window. It
comes with a translator package (transfig, also available at
ftp.x.org) that allows xfig drawings to be converted to sundry other
formats including LaTeX, PostScript, PiCTeX, etc. xfig can also import
encapsulated PostScript files that can be annotated. xfig features
primitive objects: circles, ellipses, arcs, etc. that may be grouped
into complex objects and scaled, rotated, and manipulated in various
ways.
xfig is now maintained by Brian V. Smith (he certainly answers all the
queries posted); the latest version, 3.1.3, can be ftp'd from:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig/
You also need to get the TransFig package which contains the
post-processor needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several
output formats.
The TransFig package is in:
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig/
- tgif,
developed by William Chia-Wei Cheng, also features primitive objects:
circles, ellipses, arcs, etc. that may be grouped into complex objects
and scaled, rotated, and manipulated in various ways. It also supports
"building-block" objects that can be made part of a library of objects
which are stored as Prolog code. tgif can also generate PostScript,
and xbm (x-bitmap files) compatible output.
tgif also supports the retrieval of tgif (obj and sym) files from HTTP
servers. Hypertext jumps are supported using the old tgif
teleporting or traveling mechanism.
The latest version, 2.16 pl.8, is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/applications/tgif/tgif-2.16-p8.tar.Z
ftp://cs.ucla.edu:/pub/tgif/tgif-2.16-p8.tar.Z
- picasso, developed by Frank Mangin, is an interactive drawing
tool that implements interactive image rescaling, rotation, and color
control. It features:
- greyscale image (PPM, GIF, Pict, XPM) and Postscript object
management;
- LaTeX object management and creation (picasso can generate a
latex picture mixing postscript drawing and latex objects. The
picture is resizable at include time using the \epsfsize
facility.)
The latest version, 3.8 is available for ftp from:
ftp://ftp.aud.alcatel.com/tcl/code/picasso3.8.tar.gz
picasso requires that the following packages be installed:
- fvwm
, developed by Robert Nation, seems to be the most ubiquitous of the
virtual window-managers being used in recent memory (especially in the
Linux community). It borrows heavily from Tom LaStrange's famous twm
window manager. (Actually, any self-respecting window-manager will
borrow from twm since it was the first ICCCM-compliant window-manager
to be written. It should also be noted that Tom LaStrange also wrote
the first virtual window-manager (swm) for Solbourne Corp. (is this
guy brilliant or what?))
fvwm is a derivative of twm, redesigned to minimize memory
consumption, provide a 3-D look (indistinguishable from Motif's mwm)
and provide a simple virtual desktop.
The latest version of fvwm are available for ftp in:
ftp://spcot.sanders.com/pub/fvwm
- piewm, developed by Don Hopkins, is a virtual window manager with
the look-and-feel of tvtwm, with the additional of pie-shaped menus.
It is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/R5contrib/piewm.tar.Z
- tvtwm, is the virtual-window-manager version of twm (recommended
over vtwm). It is available at:
ftp.eng.umd.edu:/pub/tvtwm
- vtwm is a virtual window manager with the look-and-feel of twm.
It is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/R5contrib/vtwm-5.3.tar.gz
- olvwm, developed by Scott Oaks, is a virtual window manager with
the look-and-feel of OpenLook (Sun's windowing environment). It is
available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/R5contrib/olvwm4.tar.Z
- ctwm, developed by Claude Lecommandeur, is an extension to twm,
that features up to 32 multiple virtual screens, called workspaces.
You switch from one workspace to another either by clicking on a
button in an optional panel of buttons (the workspace manager) or by
invoking a function. Each workspace can be customize by choosing
different colors, names, and pixmaps for the buttons and root
windows. It also features:
- optional 3D window titles and border (ala Motif);
- shaped, colored icons;
- multiple icons for clients based on the icon name;
- windows that can belong to several workspaces;
- a map of your workspaces to quickly move windows between
different workspaces;
- icons, root backgrounds and buttons that can be animated;
- pinnable and sticky menus.
The latest version of ctwm, 3.3, is available for ftp from:
ftp.x.org:/contrib/window_managers/ctwm-3.3.tar.Z
Tk is an extension to Tcl which provides an interface to the X. Note
that many users will encounter Tk via "wish", a simple
windowing shell which permits the user to write Tcl applications
interactively.
Mirrors of the X
Consortium's archive:
