XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, Third Edition

Acknowledgements

The information contained in this manual is based in part on Xlib-C Language X Interface, written by Jim Gettys, Ron Newman, and Robert Scheifler, and the X Window System Protocol, Version 11, by Robert Scheifler (with many contributors). The X Window System software and these documents were written under the auspices of Project Athena at MIT. In addition, this manual includes material from Oliver Jones’ Xlib tutorial presentation, which was given at the MIT X Conference in January 1988, and from David Rosenthal’s Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual. I owe a great debt to the X Consortium policy allowing others to build on their work.

I would like to thank the people who helped this book come into being. It was Tim O’Reilly who originally sent me out on a contract to write a manual for X Version 10 for a workstation manufacturer and later to another company to write a manual for X Version 11, from which this book began. I have learned most of what I know about computers and technical writing while working for Tim. For this book, he acted as an editor, he helped me reorganize several chapters, he worked on the Color and Managing User Preferences chapters when time was too short for me to do it, and he kept my spirits up through this long project. While I was concentrating on the details, his eye was on the overall presentation, and his efforts improved the book enormously.

This book would not be as good (and we might still be working on it) had it not been ...