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Old 01-07-2009, 12:40 AM   #1
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X Window System

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Hi all

i would like to know about X Window System in LINUX machine.
what is this?
where and how , it is used.

can you please explain me about.

any help it should be appreciable.
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Old 01-07-2009, 02:26 AM   #2
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A web search for "xlib tutorial" should give you a few starting points.
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Old 01-08-2009, 03:19 PM   #3
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Or you could also look up "xcb tutorial". XCB is an alternative to xlib, so you would usually use one or the other, but not both.
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Old 01-08-2009, 11:31 PM   #4
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check www.tldp.org too...
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Old 01-09-2009, 12:37 AM   #5
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Hi, swift2008 -

Basically, "X Windows" is the foundation that provides the GUI for most Linux (and many other *nix) systems.

X Windows isn't part of "Linux" itself, but it's so commonly associated with Linux that you can safely assume that if your Linux has a GUI, that GUI probably uses X Windows.

The programming interface for creating X Windows-based programs is "Xlib". However, there are many higher-level GUI programming libraries that make coding in Xlib more or less irrelevant. Two (of many) examples include the Qt and GTK+ GUI libraries.

'Hope that helps .. PSM
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