Version 3.4.1 - By Michael J. Hammel   <mjhammel@graphics-muse.org>

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Links:
Download the software
Screenshots
XNotesPlus Man Page
XNotesPlus FAQ
XNotesPlus Documentation - coming soon!
Known Problems
Installing the Binary Version
Pilot Link / Syncal
Sox

Paying for XNotesPlus - Keeping development going!

Future Plans

Features:

  • Editable, searchable text
  • Visual/Audio alarms
  • Project classifications for notes, both by name and by color
  • Printing using standard Unix print facilities
  • Email
  • Hidden Notes
  • Print Envelopes
  • Calendar inserts
  • Date and Time (GMT and local) inserts
  • Text file import and export
  • Cascade and Anchor notes
  • Tooltips, which can be disabled at run time or on the command line
  • Themed or standard interfaces, configurable at compile time and modiffiable after installation.
  • Highly configurable - audio, email, printer - most features can be tweaked, both in configuration files and on the command line


Palm Pilot features:

  • Sync, backup, restore all files on the Pilot.
  • Download Memos as XNotes
  • Upload XNotes into Memos
  • Download Addresses database, Edit it, and upload the changes
  • View and search addresses with the Address Manager
  • Addresses are linked to Email and Envelope Printing features - selecting an address database entry updates the Email and Envelope dialog windows automatically.
  • Download Todo Lists, edit them, and upload the changes.
  • View and search Todos, filtered on categories and sorted on any field.
  • Manage calendars with ical
System Requirements

Just about any Unix system.

X11R5 or X11R6 (might work with X11R4, but I doubt it).

GTK+ 1.2

 In order to use various features, additional programs must be in your PATH:
 
Feature Requirement
Email mail, elm or some other command line email program
Envelope printing nenscript (available with XNotesPlus)
Audio Alarms sox, play or some other command line oriented audio player
Pilot Tool No external tools required - Palm Pilot support is now built into the XNotesPlus package!

If these additional programs cannot be found when XNotesPlus starts up, then those features will be disabled.

Q1. When Uploading xnotes to the Pilot, do you already have to have an xnotes category on the Pilot?
Q2. How do you to turn off the opening dialog that tells you what has been disabled?
Q3. Why doesn't printing work?
Q4. Makefile:558 *** missing 'endef', untermintated 'define'.
Q5. I downloaded the static Gtk binary, installed it, and get the following Warning from GLIB:   GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 


Q1.  When Uploading XNotes to the Pilot, do you already have to have an xnotes category on the Pilot?

A1.  In older versions, prior to version 3.4, you did need an xnotes category.  That requirement has been removed starting with version 3.4.0.  Now XNotes get uploaded into the Unfiled category.



Q2.  How do you to turn off the opening dialog that tells you what has been disabled (eg the Pilot interface or printing)?

A2.  Use the --nn option.  "nn" stands for No Notice, which you'll also find in the XNotesPlus.cfg file.



Q3.  Why doesn't printing work?   For example, I just installed XNotesPlus and everything seems to work, except the print command. When I try to print I get the following error message:
sh: lpr /tmp/xp2031: not found
My print command is 
"lpr %s"
Any ideas what might be going on?

A3.  Try removing the double quotes.  The error message above comes from the system.  What happened was the system saw "lpr /tmp/xp2031" as the full name of the command to run, not the name of the command and an argument to that command.  Anyway, removing the double quotes will probably fix the problem.



Q4.  After making changes to config.h according to the documentation, I've run xmkmf, but now when I enter 'make Makefiles' I get the following error:

Makefile:558 *** missing 'endef', untermintated 'define'. Stop.

Indeed there are some 'define' statements in Makefile but they've been imported from config.h . Do you perhaps know what's going on?

A4:  When you uncommented the define's in config.h, you removed the #.  That doesn't uncomment it, you need to simply move the whole line outside of the C comment delimiters (ie the /* and */).  A valid define line in config.h looks like this:

#define blah

So leave the # on the front of that line.



Q5.  I downloaded the static GTK+ binary, installed it, and get the following message at run time:
GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 3123.

A5.  You can ignore this.  As far as I can tell, this is a bug in the static glib library, and it may be fixed in the GTK 1.2 release (which means this bug may no longer exist).  The warning is a result of GTK+ failing to identify system wide gtkrc files.  But that shouldn't hurt XNotesPlus users since you'll be using a Gtkrc file installed in your .xnotesplus directory.


Michael J. Hammel
November 10, 2001
mjhammel@graphics-muse.org
http://www.graphics-muse.org