From: Christian Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Am Dienstag, 16. Juli 2002 11:07 schrieben Sie: > > > We need the X-newbies website - www.x-newbies.org ;) > > > > It is very important and XFree86 should publish > > a book for BASIC X window concept. It should explain > > all basic concepts of the Xwindow with example > > picture etc. Presently in Xfree86 very very less no.of > > picture are available to explain. > > > > Already existing books may be good. But not for > > newbies. More ( Correct ) information should > > be given to Future Xperts :) > > > > Bye :) > > I wanna, where can I get it? Gimmi gimmi gimmi :) > > Well I'd like to have such a book, also with how to programm for plain > X without any toolkits and maybe a slight introdution into toolkits. > And of course introdution into the basic things, network support, > differents between the different protocoll versions. An introdution > into things like fontservers and all.
O'Reilly & Associates built their reputation by publishing a series of big thick books about X11. Sadly, most of them have gone out of print, or at least they've vanished from ORA's catalog. I have ORA volumns 3, 4, and 5 (User guide, Xt guide, and Xt reference) and their "X11 in a Nutshell" reference. The only one I use anymore is the Nutshell book. That's also the only one that's still listed in their catalog. This probably is no coincidence. The function descriptions in Nutshell are very terse -- shorter than the man pages. But the simple fact that the descriptions are *different* from the man pages often makes it worthwhile. And the descriptions of data types and events are also very handy, plus it has a good index. For Xlib programming, the best book I've found is Oliver Jones' "Introduction to the X Window System". It has excellent examples, and clear descriptions of the functions, parameters, what they do, and why you might want to do that. Jones has a knack for telling me exactly the information I need. Unfortunately, I don't think the book has been updated since X11R3, it doesn't describe any of the X extensions, and it's hard to find. Often, I begin by looking for something in the index of either book, and then cross-reference the examples in the Jones with the function descriptions in Nutshell. Powells Books (powellsbooks.com) has some of these. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
