Xlib Programming Manual, Rel. 5

By Adrian Nye

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565920023
• ISBN13: 9781565920026
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 813 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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...

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.

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.

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.