Kenton Lee's Window System and OSF/Motif Publications

Here's a bibliography of my past publications on the X Window System and OSF/Motif. I've converted most to HTML.

Please note the publication dates. I've updated some of the papers and the technical information in the others should still be accurate. References to specific products and versions in some of them, however, may be a little out-of-date. Please send me any comments you have on these papers.

Conference Presentations

• "The Practice of X Application Programming," full day tutorial taught (with Jesse Grodnik) at the Fall, 1990 DECUS Conference.
• "XMedia Toolkit Programming Environment," presented at the Xhibition Conference, July, 1992.
• "Debugging X Window System Applications," half day tutorial taught (with Donna Converse, Oliver Jones, and Douglas Young) at the Xhibition Conference, July, 1993.
• "The MediaWarehouse - Integrating Multimedia Data on the X Window System Desktop," presented at the X Consortium's Technical Conference, February, 1996.

Feature Articles

• "Behind Curtain X," UNIX Review, June, 1991. (An updated version of this paper, titled "The 40 Most Common X Programming Errors (and How To Avoid Repeating Them)," was published in The X Journal, March, 1993.)
• "X Window System Graphical Effects by Manipulating Colormaps," The X Journal, May, 1992.
• "Multimedia and the X Toolkit," The X Journal, January, 1993.
• "Developing Motif Widgets for Non-Default Visual Types," The DECwindows Newsletter, February, 1993.
• "Debugging X Protocol Error Messages," The X Journal, March, 1993.
• "The 40 Most Common X Programming Errors (and How To Avoid Repeating Them)," The X Journal, March, 1993.
• "X Application Performance Tuning," The X Journal, July, 1994.

Column

X Application Software Engineering was a bi-monthly column in The X Journal. This column received "The X Journal 1995 Editor's Choice Award for Best TXJ Column".

• "X Software Development Tools and Environments," July, 1994.
• "The Benefits of Modular X Application Software," September, 1994.
• "Debugging X Toolkit Widget Resources with Editres," November, 1994.
• "Debugging X Input Events," January, 1995.
• "`Indirect' Motif Widget Resources," March, 1995.
• "Preventing X Toolkit Widget Resource Syntax Errors," May, 1995.

Column

Advanced X Application Development was a monthly column in The X Advisor, a monthly WWW magazine that focused on the X Window System.

• "The X Application Programming Model," June, 1995.
• "Join the X Window System's Internet Community," July, 1995.
• "Using X Non-Widget Resources," August, 1995.
• "Developing Motif Application Programs on Your Home PC," September, 1995.
  • An update to "Developing Motif Application Programs on Your Home PC", October, 1996.
• "Multimedia ICCCM Data Interchange," October, 1995.
• "Communicating with the Window Manager," November, 1995.
• "Adding External Input Sources To The X Toolkit Event Loop," December, 1995.
• "1996 X Technical Conference Preview," January, 1996.
• "Debugging X Memory Leaks and Other Dynamic Memory Bugs," February, 1996.
• "Avoiding Motif Memory Leaks," March, 1996.
• "1996 X Technical Conference Review," April, 1996.

Articles

The Motif Developer is a new on-line magazine for the Motif community. I plan to contribute feature articles from time to time.

• "X Window System Design Principles," September, 1997

Reference Pages

• X Technical Bibliography, included with the X Consortium's X11R4 and X11R5 releases.
• X Window System Technical Glossary, December, 1995 (HTML 2.0 version) (HTML 3.0 frames version).
• X Protocol Request to Xlib Function Mapping, May, 1996:
  • Xlib functions and corresponding X protocol requests
  • X protocol requests and corresponding Xlib functions
  • X protocol request codes
  • X protocol event and error codes (with error descriptions)
• How to get Motif, March, 1996.
• Motif widget class hierarchy (includes Motif 2.0 and 2.1 widgets), June, 1997.
• Dangerous X virus (from the 1989 SIGGRAPH conference)
• Over 700 Technical X Window System and OSF/Motif WWW Sites, frequently updated (HTML 2.0 version) (HTML 3.0 frames version).
• I'm the new maintainer of the Motif FAQ. This FAQ answers over 300 of the most common technical questions about Motif.