Customer Reviews

X Window System: Core Libraries and Standards

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am glad to have a copy of this book as it gives me a very good overall understanding of all the X window essentials. I used to program using Motif and the tools, and that was not sufficient when I came to the graphical aspects of the X Windows. This book puts things into perspective for me, and is easy to read. One thing I dislike about the format of this book is the brackets at the margin of the book to enclose code snippets.

This book, in addition to two other books, supersedes X Window System: The Complete Reference to Xlib, X Protocol, ICCCM, and XLFD, published in 1992. You can get the content listing for this book, and other Digital Press books, at http://www.bhusa.com/digitalpress/.

This book is probably essential to anyone wishing to utilize the X Window System; however, as a contributer to XFree86, I still find this book useful, though it was not rewritten specifically to be a contributers guide.

Covers Xlib, ICCCM, and XLFD. X Protocol coverage has been split into a book called X Window System: Core and Extension Protocols. The other book in this three part series is titled X Window System: Extension Libraries.