How to start with X?

[Lucien Gentis]

There is also this tuto for xcb :

https://xcb.freedesktop.org/tutorial/

and this doc for Xlib programming with many examples :

http://csweb.cs.wfu.edu/~torgerse/Kokua/Irix_6.5.21_doc_cd/usr/share/Insight/library/SGI_bookshelves/SGI_Developer/books/XLib_PG/sgi_html/index.html

Le 23/01/2020 à 12:53, Teodoro Santoni a écrit :
> 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?
>>
>> --
>> 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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