Directory of Motif Resources

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Motif can refer to both a graphical user interface (GUI) specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System.

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It is the toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment and was thus the standard toolkit for Unix.

Resources in This Category

• ICS MotifZone

  http://motif.ics.com/
  ICS's Open Motif built from the official Open Group sources. Precompiled binaries available on all popular Linux environments and FreeBSD.

• LessTif

  http://www.lesstif.org/
  The Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif. It is source compatible with OSF/Motif 1.2, meaning that the same source should compile with both and work exactly the same. [Open source, LGPL]

• LXB

  http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parki005/lxb/
  A Linux X11/Motif GUI builder. [Open source, GPL]

• Motif

  http://www.opengroup.org/tech/desktop/motif/
  Official site from Open Group Desktop Technologies.

• Motif Programming/Reference Manuals Volume 6A/6B

  http://www.motifdeveloper.com/news/news12.html
  The definitive O'Reilly Motif reference guides. Completely updated for Motif 2.1 and available for free download in various formats.

• Motif USENET FAQ

  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/
  Browse archive of FAQ by archive, author, and category or by newsgroup.

• Motif Widgets in Motion

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/movingmotif/
  Three Motif widgets to display scientific data as dynamic plot.

• motifdeveloper.com

  http://www.motifdeveloper.com/
  Provides a wide range of resources and technical tips for X/Motif developers.

• X-Designer

  http://www.ist-inc.com/xd/
  Commercial X/Motif GUI Builder including GUI testing and Motif to Java and Windows migration capabilities

• Xlt widget set

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlt/
  The LessTif/Motif Extension library, is a set of widgets that make programming with the Motif API easier as it adds a set of frequently used tools, mostly authored by Rick Scott.

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