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HistoryO'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...
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Unfortunately, X11 programming is extremely complex. This book is not perfect, but does guide you through the labyrinth. If you are going to program in X11, you need to get this book.
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X is a little cyptic but very powerful.This book does an extremely good and thorough job of documenting Xlib programming.It is without a doubt the best technical reference I have ever read.
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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.
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