How to start with X?

[Emanuele Petriglia]

Hi, thank you for the reply. I'll check the two links. Between the first link and the book, which is it better? 
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Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)

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On 23 January 2020 12:53:24 CET, Teodoro Santoni <asbrasbra at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>2020-01-22 18:26 GMT+01:00, Emanuele Petriglia
><inbox at emanuelepetriglia.com>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to learn how to create a C graphical application without
>> using some toolkit for hobby. I know that there are two main
>libraries:
>> Xlib and xcb. The first is old but has a lot of documentation, the
>> second is newer but less documented than the first. So I was thinking
>to
>> learn Xlib and then xcb.
>>
>> I found this book about Xlib: "XLIB Programming Manual" of Adrian Nye
>> published on 1994. I do not found any other recent book. Is it good
>to
>> start with Xlib even is it old?
>>
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>> Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)
>>
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>[1] is a guide that should be fairly valid on xlib.
>From there you can afterwards embed xlib-xcb.h, gradually migrate from
>xlib to xcb reading the docs, read the guide from iotek for fonts in
>xcb without xft [2] or embed pango in your application.
>
>[1] https://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/
>[2] https://venam.nixers.net/blog/unix/2018/09/02/fonts-xcb.html
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