X RESOURCE (X Window System Series : Issue 1)

The January issue of ""The X Resource is the Annual Proceedings of the X Consortium's X Technical Conference at MIT. The X Conference proceedings are published exclusively in ""The X Resource.

Table of Contents, Issue 1 (January 1992):

Can You Bet Your Life On X? Using the X Window System for Command and Control Displays, by Jeff Malacarne.Integrating the GL into the X Environment: A High Performance Rendering Extension Working With and Not Against X, by Phil Karlton.A PostScript X Server, by William Raves.How Not to Implement Overlays in X, by Todd Newman.NFB, an X Server Porting Layer, by Jeff Weinstein.The Multi-Threaded X Server, by John Allen Smith.Prototyping MT-Safe Xt and XView Libraries, by Bart Smaalders, Brian Warkentine and Kevin Clarke.Implementing Resolution Independence on top of the X Window System, by Mark A. Linton.Don't Fidget with Widgets, Draw!, by Joel F. Bartlett.A Macro Facility for X: Object Specific Event Simulation, by Kuntal Rawal.Testing Widget Geometry Management, by Daniel Dardailler.Migrating Widgets, by Christian P. Jacobi.Implementing Drag & Drop for X11, by Gabe Beged-Dov and Ellis S. Cohen.Virtual Screen: A Framework for Task Management, by Jin-Kun Lin.Using XTrap to Help People with Manual Disabilities, by Keith Packard.MuX: An X Co-Existent, Time-Based Multimedia I/O Server, by Earl Rennison, Rusti Baker, Doohyun David Kim, and Young-Hwan Lim.

Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.