[plug] X-Windows MBA

[Oliver White]

The 'xbooks' debian package is also a good resource, thanks to Christian
for the tip. :-)

"stephen." wrote:
> 
> I have programmed a bit with 3 different GUI's ( Amiga , Xwindows and MS
> Windows)
> They all seemed quite similar - all GUI's share a number of features in
> common
> bassicly an event driven software is the typical way.
> 
> X is designed to be able to use over a netwrk though. When used on same
> machine it uses shared
> memory techniques so it runs extremly fast and efficiently.
> 
> The book i learnt x windows from is called X window applications
> programming
>  it's quite old now though and ide strongly suggest that unless you want
> sometyhing really tricky
>  you can save alot of time by not using x system cals and go for a
> higher level
> C++ library ie GTK or Qt, lestif or motif or similar.