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SGI graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Introduction
- -1- DISPLAYS AND DGL
- -2- How can I run a program on one machine and display it on another?
- -3- Does the DISPLAY environment variable work for GL applications?
- -4- Why doesn't the DISPLAY environment variable seem to work?
- -5- Why do I get DGL errors when I try to run a GL program?
- -6- CUSTOMIZING
- -7- What tools does SGI provide to help with the customization process?
- -8- What are the important login and resource files for IRIX 4.0.x?
- -9- What is the sequence of events that occur at login time in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -10- What is the difference between .xsession and .sgisession in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -11- Why do 4Dwm, toolchest, Workspace, etc. not recognize an environment variable I set in my shell's startup files in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -12- How can I save my screen layout in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -13- How can I turn off the IRIX 5.2 Magic user environment?
- -14- How can I display my own background image under Indigo Magic?
- -15- Where is the default value of PATH set?
- -16- Why can't I log in after copying /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession to .xsession?
- -17- How can I find out what fonts are available?
- -18- How can I use the Alt key as a Meta key in an xwsh window?
- -19- How can I configure my keyboard like a VT100?
- -20- Can I put a single large picture in the 'clogin' display?
- -21- How can I change clogin's background to an image?
- -22- RESOURCES
- -23- What are resources?
- -24- How can I set resources?
- -25- How can I use resources to run the same program twice with different attributes?
- -26- Does the GL recognize resources?
- -27- How can I know what resources I can set for an application?
- -28- What is a good approach to take in looking for resources?
- -29- What is the precedence for resource files?
- -30- Why do long resources cause X to crash mysteriously in IRIX 5.2?
- -31- 4DWM
- -32- Where can I learn more about the Window Manager?
- -33- What files affect the window manager and what is their relationship to each other?
- -34- Do I need my own .4Dwmrc file?
- -35- Can I run a different window manager?
- -36- How can I choose a different window manager as the default?
- -37- How can I recover from a failed window manager customization attempt?
- -38- Why is an extra 4Dwm burning CPU in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -39- Why doesn't the window manager's "Log Out" routine work in IRIX 4.0.5?
- -40- ADMINISTRATION
- -41- How can I log into pandora/clogin without bringing up graphics?
- -42- How can I restart the console?
- -43- How can I start and stop the graphics system?
- -44- How can I restart the X server?
- -45- How can I run 'xinit' manually, rather than automatically from 'xdm'?
- -46- How can I start X on a remote host with no users logged in?
- -47- IMAGE FILES
- -48- How can I convert images to and from other formats?
- -49- How can I convert models to and from other formats?
- -50- What is the format of SGI's RGB files?
- -51- How can I compress RGB bitmaps?
- -52- How can I make a screen dump?
- -53- Why does the IRIX 5.3 desktop recognize but not deal with JPEG files?
- -54- PROGRAMMING
- -55- Can I use 4Dgifts code in my application?
- -56- What does ERR_WMANIPC mean?
- -57- How can I translate screen (x,y) coords into world (x,y,z) coords?
- -58- How can I translate world (x,y,z) coords into screen (x,y) coords?
- -59- Why does nothing happen when I call mapcolor(index, R, G, B)?
- -60- What's wrong with blink() in IRIX 4.0.x?
- -61- Why can't 'cc' find some standard Xwindows functions?
- -62- Where is the library /usr/lib/libgl_s.a for my R4000 Indigo running IRIX 4.0.5F?
- -63- What is a GL widget?
- -64- I'm using the GlxMDraw widget and it doesn't seem that colors are being installed correctly. Overlays in the GlxMDraw widget are displayed in red and gray instead of the colors I specify. What's wrong?
- -65- Is there a way to switch between single and double buffering within a GL widget on the fly?
- -66- Why doesn't my X server use backing store? How can I turn it on?
- -67- What is "/dev/tport" used for?
- -68- Why is OpenGL's glDrawPixels slower than IrisGL's lrectwrite?
- -69- BUGS AND PROBLEMS
- -70- Why do I get a "Broken Pipe" error when I close an X client window?
- -71- What do the errors in my 'xdm-errors' file mean?
- -72- Why doesn't SGI's xlock lock my screen?
- -73- Sun XView applications like "mailtool" hang my X server in IRIX 4.0.5. They come up fine, but when I click on them the server freezes.
- -74- Why can't I log into Pandora in IRIX 4.0.1?
- -75- Pandora won't come up, and /usr/adm/SYSLOG says "helvetica font missing"
- -76- After running a few programs, the colors change as the cursor moves. The colors are usually all wrong in other windows.
- -77- How can I make my X Server use a 12-bit PseudoColor, 12- bit TrueColor or 24-bit TrueColor visual by default?
- -78- When I try to run UIM/X uxserverd, I get an error message saying, "license file has been modified, cannot start the UIM/X license server".
- -79- I just upgraded from IRIX 5.2 to 5.3. Why does my PI or VGX say "extension GLX missing on display :0.0"?
- -80- Why does my X server (Xsgi) grow inexorably?
- -81- MISCELLANEOUS
- -82- What books about the X Window System and OSF/Motif do you recommend?
- -83- Does the IRIX 5.2 Magic user environment display on an X terminal?
- -84- What about OpenGL?
- -85- Which SGI machines can run OpenGL now? Which will in the future?
- -86- What's this about a copyright dispute over virtual desks in Indigo Magic?
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