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From: Douglas.Tomm@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: menu question
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 00:59:35 EST
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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