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From: Bjorn.Victor@docs.uu.se (Bjorn Victor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer
Subject: X11M (Monochrome X11 server)
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Date: 22 Nov 90 11:35:16 GMT
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Is there anybody out there, still?

I have started to use the X11 server daily (I am doing it right now),
and have fixed the black/white swapping in the server (so that
(TV:BLACK-ON-WHITE) does what it says, even in the X11 frame).  If
anyone wants the patches I'd be happy to send them to you, it's not
much.

I still have some problems, though, that I was wondering if anybody
has solved already.  (How many of you are really using the X11 server?)
(How many of you are really using Explorers any longer...?)

* Has anyone got the code for the documented(!) function
X11:COMPILE-X11-FONT (appendix B of "SLE X Window System Programmer's
Reference"), which is said to make a font usable by X11M out of a BDF
file.  The stuff in jwz's archive just makes a screen font, without
the necessary X11 font info.

* Has anyone got the patches that make X11M work better with R4 twm?
I have asked TI Sweden to get me either release 7 (which they have
claimed should have been released october 23) or an up-to-date patch
tape, but this could take a while.

Two bugs that I really hate:

1) Typing in GNU Emacs is much more slow than in e.g. xterm.  
It feels like typing to a 100-baud machine with typeahead.

2) A GNU Emacs window seems to not completely cover an xterm window.
Having the Emacs window cover the right side of the xterm window, and
then scroll some obscured text in the xterm window makes the obscured
text "print through" the Emacs window.

Both are with X11R4 clients, GNU Emacs 18.55.


What's the story about TI pulling out, officially?  TI Sweden still
don't know anything about it.

Hack hack,
-- Bjorn Victor			Bjorn.Victor@DoCS.UU.SE
Dept. of Computer Systems    or Bjorn.Victor%DoCS.UU.SE@uunet.UU.NET
Uppsala University, Sweden	"I'd rather hack a Lisp Machine!"