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Xlib Programming Manual for Version 11, Rel. 5, Vol. 1 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

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Probably the best available...

By Bevan Schroeder (bevan@foo.net) - April 1, 1998

FYI: you don't need volume 2... This book is cryptic and messy, but so is X. I've used it a lot whenever the man pages get too ugly.

Before the animal books there were the "X Books"

By calvinnme - November 29, 2006

O'Reilly and Associates was born as a publisher of technical books when Tim O'Reilly printed out copies of the first edition of this manual and was practically mobbed at a technical convention by eager customers in 1988. This is an extremely well written book on programming with Xlib, an X Window System protocol client library in the C programming language. Xlib contains functions for interacting with an X server that allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the protocol. Few applications use Xlib directly anymore. Instead, they employ other libraries that use Xlib functions to provide widget toolkits such as Xt, Xaw, Motif, GTK+, and Qt. However, if you are going to need to program in Xlib directly, this is an essential book. The table of contents is as follows:

Chapter 1 Introduction - This chapter gives the big picture: what X is all about and some fundamentals of how it works.

Chapter 2 X Concepts - This chapter introduces the... read more

Unfortunately there are no alternatives..

By Jo Totland - September 29, 2002

This book is a basic introduction to programming X11 directly with Xlib. It is not obvious that Adrian Nye is the best expert to learn from. Often it seems like he wrote the book in an attempt to try to make sense of the X11 system himself. Parts of it are extremely unclear, but at least we should give him credit for trying to explain everything, even those parts he wasn't entirely sure about.It would probably be a good idea if O'Reilly made a revised edition, rewriting some of the bad parts (which should probably be clear in Adrians head by now), and updating some material for X11R6. On the good side, there are plenty of code-examples, and while they aren't exactly showing good style, at least they are complete, you can type them in and run them. And they are all small enough to understand without further refactoring. And while not every explanation Adrian makes is crystal clear, it is definitely necessary to have some understanding of basic X11 concepts before you move on to... read more

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