How to start with X?

[Teodoro Santoni]

Hello,

2020-01-23 13:11 GMT+01:00, Emanuele Petriglia <inbox at emanuelepetriglia.com>:
> Hi, thank you for the reply. I'll check the two links. Between the first
> link and the book, which is it better?
> --
> Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe)
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> 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
>

If the book, as I noticed on google, is the o'reilly manual, it should
be as valid as Tronche's site if o'reilly hosts somewhere the example
sources.
But I never read that book, so YMMV.