<html><head></head><body>Hi, Thanks for the advice. Do you have any thoughts about the book? I found also a digital version thanks to Lucien. -- Emanuele Petriglia (ema-pe) Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity. <div class="gmail_quote">On 23 January 2020 16:25:05 CET, Carsten Haitzler <raster@rasterman.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:26:32 +0100 Emanuele Petriglia <inbox@emanuelepetriglia.com> said: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">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? </blockquote> Advice: stick with Xlib. More examples. More docs. XCB is only better in a few very specific cases that mostly are the areas WM and toolkit authors might obsess over for small gains in performance. So stick to Xlib - that's my advice. </pre></blockquote></div></body></html>