OPENMOTIF.TXT

This file is
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/tools/openmotif.txt
    Updated: 12 Aug 2000

Modified version of file posted on Sat Jul 22 01:14:06 BST 2000
to comp.lang.pop

Subject: Free Motif (better than Lesstif) works with Poplog/Xved

I recently learnt about the following from comp.lang.lisp

    http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/06/23/961774444.html

   Metro Link, Inc. <amyz at metrolink.com> - June 23rd 2000, 11:34 EST

   This is Metro Link, Inc.'s enhanced version of Open Motif, which
   includes approximately 30 significant bug fixes and enhancements to
   the Motif libraries and window manager, plus many minor source changes
   and over 100 fixes to the Motif demo source code. These changes were
   developed for Metro Link's commercial Motif products, and are now
   being contributed back to Open Motif.


URLS
   Download: http://www.metrolink.com/openmotif/download.html

   Homepage: http://www.metrolink.com/openmotif/

I have installed it and tried it with Motif Poplog on a Dell Laptop
running Redhat 6.1, and Steve Allen has tried it with Suse Linux.

Installation is simple: download the file

    openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm

Then, as root,
   rpm -i openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm

If you have Lesstif, rpm will complain. You can either
uninstall Lesstif, or force installation of motif:

   rpm -i --force openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm

If you have the non-motif version of Linux Poplog V15.53 dated Nov 1999
(not the earlier versions built in July or September 1999) then you
should be able to re-link it to use motif:

1. unprotect both $popsys and $usepop/pop/extern/lib, the latter
   so that libXpw.so can be rebuilt (which may not be necessary).

    chmod -R u+w $popsys $usepop/pop/extern/lib

2. Check that it is possible to run the corepop and corepop11
binaries in $popsys

    $popsys/corepop  %noinit
    $popsys/corepop11 %noinit

They should not produce any errors. (You may get the Pop-11
prompt: then just type CTRL-D to exit.)

If either gives an error, fetch and run the rebuilding script from

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/tools/relinking.linux.poplog

After fetching, do this
    chmod 755 relinking.linux.poplog
to make it executable.

There is more information about what is going on in here
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/sysdoc/rebuilding


3. If corepop and corepop11 work, give this command to do the re-linking

    $popsrc/newpop -link -x=-xm -xpw -norsv

(the -xpw bit may not be necessary, but should do no harm).

Other options are described in the HELP NEWPOP file, i.e.
    $usepop/pop/help/newpop

You can add the noinstall flag to prevent installation in $popsys
e.g. to see if re-linking works:

    $popsrc/newpop -link -x=-xm -xpw -noinstall -norsv

(You should not need to use the -xpw flag more than once.)

After re-linking you should be able to run poplog if you have Motif
available. You can then run Xved with scroll bars and menus on each
window.


NOTE: Even without Motif you can run the rclib and rcmenu
packages available at the Free Poplog site. See
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/rclib/help/rclib

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/rcmenu/help/ved_menu
        These menus don't require XVed. They work just as well with
        Ved.

Aaron
===
Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk   (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/
TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html

--- $poplocal/local/ftp/tools/openmotif.txt
--- Copyright University of Birmingham 2000. All rights reserved. ------