Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sgi!decwrl!gilroy.pa.dec.com!klee From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: X books Message-ID: <1693@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 17 Aug 89 18:37:23 GMT Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Reply-To: klee@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Western Software Laboratory Lines: 47 I used to periodically post a bibliography of technical publications (mostly magazine and journal articles) on the X Window System. I thought this was useful because there few tutorial books available on X. Since then (it was only a few months ago, but that's a long time in the rapidly changing workstation world), several good tutorial books have appeared, but, for a long while, few technical articles have. I've also been lazy, so haven't kept the bibliography up to date. A few good articles have recently come out, mostly on the second wave of X stuff, like PEX and Motif. I'll try to update the bibliography and post it soon. In the mean time, here are some good books for Scheifler, Gettys, & Newman, *X Window System*, DEC Press This is the bible on Xlib and the X protocol, but not especially good as a tutorial. You need this as a reference, even if you get something else. Shipped with the X11R3 distribution from MIT. Nye, *Xlib Programming Manual*, O'Reilly & Associates Jones, *Introduction to the X Window System*, Prentice-Hall Johnson & Richard, *X Window Applications Programming*, MIS: Press These 3 are similar, all tutorials Xlib programming. The first was written by a technical writer and is the most professional looking. The other 2 were written by experienced X programmers. The Jones book has lots of useful tips on using Xlib. The Johnson & Richard book has lots and lots of sample code, but the coverage is thinner than the Jones or Nye books. None of these is as complete as Scheifler's book. Young, *X Window Systems: Programming and Applications with Xt*, Prentice-Hall Despite the typo in the title, this is a pretty good book. It's the only one that covers the X Toolkit, explaining both writing widgets and using them in applications programs. There are a few others out there. The ASP books are just reprints (word for word) of the MIT manuals. You might want to buy those if your printer is tired. Several more are in the works. Some of these should be excelent. Enjoy. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee