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. Table of Contents, Issue 7 (Summer 1993): DEPARTMENTS

• From the X Consortium: Buddy, Can You Spare an RPC? Robert Scheifler
• The X Consortium: The Next Generation
• The X User: Xrdb and Screen-specific Resources Miles O'Neal
• Best of Netnews Edited by Marc Albert

PAPERS

• The Mercator Project: A Nonvisual Interface to the X Window System W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, and Tom Rodriguez
• Managing X in a Large Distributed Environment George D. M. Ross
• X Application Debugging Adrian Nye
• Experiences in Extending X to Provide Determinism Robert Chesler
• A Tale of Two Toolkits: Xt Versus InterViews Imran Bashir and David M Sternlicht

DOCUMENTATION

• The Widget Method Statistics Package: Tools for Monitoring and Measuring Method Usage Bruce Gendler