Motif

Action Shots

Background

This fork of Motif was born of a desire to keep Motif (and other X11 technologies) alive and well. The original upstream Sourceforge project hasn't had any activity in over two years, none of the project admins have been active for at least that amount of time, the official bug tracker has disappeared into the void; and the user forum was closed way back in 2017. Sadly, it appears that the original upstream has abandoned the project.

I've incorporated some fixes from upstream that have laid dormant for years, a few others from Gentoo, and made a few improvements of my own. I intend to maintain this fork, and in doing so advocate for the continued use of the user interface toolkit that defined an era, and influenced many of the user interfaces that came after it.

Building from Source

You can build from source as follows (assuming that you have autoconf, automake, etc. installed):

% ./autogen.sh && make

Building the Demos

The demos can be built by running:

% make demos

Note that not all of the demos are in working order, and there are a few that depend on running under mwm.

Running the Tests

The tests require check to be installed, and can be run by:

% ./configure --enable-tests && make check

Notable Changes

• Support for Xcursor and loading cursors from SVG/PNG files
• Initial support for Xrandr / Xinerama (Xrandr preferred)
• With XPRINT being long dead, and no-one using it, the PrintShell has been removed
• Transparent Xdnd protocol support
• Mesa's GL drawingarea widget has been included, and may be built by specifying --enable-glw.
• The autotools build system has been updated
• The following macros that were previously exposed in Xm.h have been renamed, and will evaluate to 1 if enabled, 0 if disabled:

    - JPEG_SUPPORTED     -> XM_WITH_JPEG
    - PNG_SUPPORTED      -> XM_WITH_PNG
    - UTF8_SUPPORTED     -> XM_UTF8

• The XM_MSGCAT macro was added, to signify that Motif was built with support for X/Open message catalogs.
• JPEG, PNG, Xft, and Xrandr support is enabled by default if present at build-time. Specify --without-jpeg, etc. to disable them.
• Motif's editres implementation has been removed, so that the updated version in libXmu >= 1.3.0 can be used instead. Editres itself will require this patch.
• XmCommandGetChild() is deprecated in favor of XtNameToWidget like the other *GetChild() functions
• The demos have been split out from the all make target
• Various bugs have been fixed
• Tons (probably >= 10k lines) of dead code pruned

TODO

• Continued fixes and improvements

Packaging Status