The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. The journal is the Official Publisher of the X Consortium Technical Conference Proceedings, which form the January issue. DEPARTMENTS

• From The X Consortium: The MIT X Software Distribution After Release 5, by Stephen Gildea, MIT X Consortium
• The X Administrator: Taming the X Display Manager, by Miles O'Neal
• X User Groups

PAPERS

• Finding Auxiliary Files for an X Toolkit Application, by David Flanagan
• RPC Programming in X Applications, by John Bloomer
• A Bibliography of Windowing Systems and Security, by Jeremy Epstein
• The xgen/ Application Generator: Constructing Motif GUIs For TTY Programs, by Kurt Buehler
• Workstation Audio in the X Environment, by Richard Billman, Robert Hammond, Pat McElhatton, Ellen Nordahl Brandt, Francis Sung, and Nancy Yost

DOCUMENTATION

• A Directory of Freely and Commercially Available Widgets
• The Cmap Widget
• The Hdial Widget
• The X11 Input Extension: A Tutorial, by Paula Ferguson
• The X11 Input Extension: Reference Pages