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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by pjmlp on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @04:18AM (#36953658)
Which wasn't necessarly how X Windows worked in commercial UNIX, so having the source code wasn't of much help.

And that O'reilly X Windows book series, The Definitive Guides to the X Window System, a "tiny" set of 8 books, only for the UI stack.

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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by arethuza on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:21AM (#36954691)
Its a been a while since I did any X development but as far as I recall as an application (client) developer you generally only needed to know about the client library you were using together with some lower level details from Xlib?
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Re:The Worst API Ever Made by pjmlp on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:08AM (#36954976)
Only if using something like Gtk+, which is mostly a cross-platform kind of approach anyway.

X Windows with the X Athena Widgets, or Motif, you better have all those books.

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