Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 17415
Use xaw3d for xdvi!
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:58 EDT
If one uses Xaw3d instead of plain Xaw xdvi looks much nicer. I have been recompiling tetex from rpm source (rawhide) and just changing one line in xdvi Makefile to use Xaw3d (rawhide). All the buttons become 3d and looks great. I noticed that there are other X applications that use Xaw3d (like xfig) in rawhide so this would not be a revelutionary move! Thanks
FIxed in tetex-1.0.7-9.
The Xaw3d-enabled xdvi from tetex-xdvi-1.0.9-13 looks very poor when it is used without an appropriate resource-file (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xdvi). This is the case in a default RH installation. I toke some values from the xfig resourcefile (especially the *shadowWidth ones) and could improve the lookout significantly. But because I am very untalented in configuring program-faces and have no documentation about the Xaw3d resources, my resource-file is incomplete and won't hit the taste of other people. ;) umar@compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu, because you seem to have working Xaw3d-resources, can you provide them here please?
Hi...thanks. Now there is a problem that I reported as bug, and that is the latest rawhide xdvi does not read the file (does not include) /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi....instead it reads /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi or if one has xdvi resources in .Xresources file. My resources are: xdvi*background: SlateBlue xdvi.background: White xdvi*foreground: White xdvi.foreground: Black xdvi.borderColor: Green xdvi.borderWidth: 4 xdvi.highlight: Green xdvi*font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-14-100-100-100-m-80-iso8859-1 XDvi*mfMode: ljfour XDvi*pixelsPerInch: 600 XDvi*shrinkFactor: 6 XDvi*paper: a4 XDvi*wwwBrowser: netscape NOTES: The xdvi* resources refer to the buttons and menu part of the window whereas xdvi. ones refer to the actual preview window part. mfmode and pixelsPerInch are different than your defaults but I would think most people use 600 by now. Playing with shrink factor greatly improves the resolution of the preview. I have 1280x1024.
Thanks. I'll try to get most of these resources in the next build. I'm wary of changing the shrink factor and pixelsPerInch, but the rest looks great.
The colors are nice but the 3D-effects looks a little bit scrappy here (I will attach an image). When putting *beNiceToColormap: False into the resource-file I can increase the lookout significantly. I am running my X-server with 16bpp. Is it possible that X assumes the setting above as default with 24 or 32bpp?
Created attachment 14663 [details] $ xdvi ## *beNiceToColormap not set
Created attachment 14664 [details] $ xdvi ## *beNiceToColormap set to false
When you actually load a DVI file, the buttons actually look 3D. The file dialog doesn't seem to be using the resources though.
The buttons there are blue but the shadow-effect is realized by dotted lines still. Setting the *beNiceToColormap resource to false makes it look significantly better too. Has this resource any negative effects on displays with more than 8bpp? AFAIK there are no colormaps which must be respected, so it can be set by default there.
I agree that setting xdvi*beNiceToColormap: False improves the look. I am using 16bpp and have no problems with this resource (although we are getting a bit picky). Looking into source I did not see any Xdvi or XDvi resource file and xdvi does not seem to look for it except in /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi perhaps this can be done in /usr/bin/xdvi script! This is an unrelated question but is there a way to specify resources for that selFile window that comes up when no file name is specified?
Fixed in tetex-1.0.7-16. I don't know about the selFile window though; I couldn't get that to look any prettier.