RE: [gtkmm] A burning question about X Windows

[Dean Kutryk <trollking shaw ca>]

All this stuff is very nice. I am using Linux. I had to set a couple
environment variables in $HOME/.bashrc to get Gtkmm running:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig/:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/:/usr/local/lib/
I think this information should be somewhere on the website.

I'm disappointed that all the books on XFree86 are out of print and a
decade old, but at least there are libraries like GDK (long live the
guys who maintain them).

I suppose that a Forum costs money and most people are flat broke
losers. Well if someone independently started a Linux programming forum
that concentrated on Standard C++ and Gtkmm, as well as pumping out a
few books on the subject, maybe there wouldn't be a massive revolt here,
over something like that.


On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 05:26, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > I realize that Gtkmm is a wrapper of the software library 
> > GTK+, however is it wrong for a C++ programmer to perhaps 
> > want to design some custom widgets or enhancements that he 
> > uses along with the the Gtkmm library.
> 
> You can of course create custom widgets with gtkmm, without using an X
> calls. If you need to do any special drawing or even handling then you can
> use gdkmm (GDK), though it is rare that you need to. GDK wraps X in a
> cross-platform way, so if you use gtkmm and gdkmm instead of X calls, then
> your widget will work on Windows and the linux framebuffer as well as X.
> 
> > I was wondering why 
> > there are so few tutorials on XFree86. How on earth can 
> > people ignore all information and knowledge about such a core 
> > infrastructure, and yet the Linux kernel gets so much attention.
> 
> Because almost nobody needs to know about X, because we have GTK+ and gtkmm
> and Qt?
> 
> Murray Cumming
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