How to start with X?

[Teodoro Santoni]

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