Hi, im an experianced windows c++ programmer, could any1 recomend a good site that could help me transfee my skills to the linux side ???

im basically looking to learn the Linux API and what headers are available.

thanX

You'll find it a bit different than Windows. What you probably want is to learn the UNIX / Linux system calls. This has nothing to do with X or any GUI. (Or C++, for that matter. It's all C, just like the Windows API).

The standard bible is Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment; Stevens; Addison-Wesley. From there you could go to Programming with POSIX Threads; Butenhof; Addison-Wesley; and UNIX Network Programming Volume 1; Stevens; Prentice Hall.

Have a blast!

There isn't many resources on xlib, but there are a couple around, and there is the source code itself. The Linux API is a minimal API compared to MS Windows system interface (Win32). The X protocol uses the xlib interface to communicate between a client and server. Linux has serveral Widget Toolkits which are objects built ontop of xlib primitives. There are also several decentralized libraries that are used in the implementation of these Widget Toolkits, however they are separate libraries such as ATK, PANGO, and GLib (which contains structures, threading, containers, etc). The most popular open source Widget Toolkit is GTK+, it's a C object oriented library, and it has Standard C++ bindings (GTKmm).

Great, Thanx every1