Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs:470 comp.emacs:5358 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs Subject: Re: X11 and gnu Message-ID: Date: 16 Feb 89 15:51:38 GMT References: <9587@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: gnu.emacs Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 30 In-reply-to: mazer@bek-owl.caltech.edu's message of 15 Feb 89 23:14:44 GMT In article <9587@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mazer@bek-owl.caltech.edu (Jamie Mazer) writes: We've just started running X on our system; of course, I decided to try and recompile gnu for X ... However, we seem to be missing the files associated with XMenu. What exactly is this? XMenu was a menu package that originated under X10 (R3?) to provide a deck-of-cards style of menu stacks. X10 menuwm used them, as did X10 emacs and a few other applications. XMenu was ported to X11 as a migration aid until some better X11 menu-handling tools emerged. The X11 port was present on the R1 and R2 distributions, but was finally dropped from the R3 tape in the interests of getting people to move along in life. GNU Emacs' X11 interface can still optionally use the X11 port of XMenu, if you still #define HAVE_X_MENU in src/config.h. However, if you walked into X at R3, you don't have XMenu. I assume its a widget of some sort that we are just missing.. Can anyone give me some tips on where to look for this tool? Purists like me say that upwardly-mobile hacks should be stomped and discontinued. Practical folks like me say that it's at least better than not having mouse-bound menus at all. Therefore, to give folks their own choice between practicality and purity, I snatched the R2 XMenu library from certain oblivion. You can get it from prep.ai.mit.edu:/u/emacs/oldXMenu.tar.Z, or from giza.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/X.V11R3/contrib/oldXMenu.tar.Z. It's also in osu-cis!/u/public/emacs/oldXMenu.tar.Z if you don't have Internet access.