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Paperback Xlib Programming Manual, Rel. 5 Book

ISBN: 1565920023

ISBN13: 9781565920026

XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

(Book #1 in the The Definitive Guides to the X Window System Series)

Covering X11 Release 5, the Xlib Programming Manual is a complete guide to programming the X library (Xlib), the lowest level of programming interface to X. It includes introductions to internationalization, device-independent color, font service, and scalable fonts. Includes chapters on: X Window System concepts A simple client application Window attributes The graphics context Graphics in practice Color Events Interclient communication Internationalization The Resource Manager A complete client application Window management This manual is a companion to Volume 2, Xlib Reference Manual.

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Rated 5 stars
Before the animal books there were the "X Books"

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...

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Rated 4 stars
X11 programming is complex, this book helps

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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Rated 5 stars
Excellent

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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Rated 4 stars
Probably the best available...

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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