Re: [gtkmm] A burning question about X Windows

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>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

you can still get them quite easily second hand. and to be honest,
they *are* useful if you want to understand what is going on under the
hood. but with pango (i.e. client side rendering) for text and cairo
on the horizon, pretty soon most Xlib stuff is going to become fairly
irrelevant even when running GTK on X.

>I suppose that a Forum costs money and most people are flat broke
>losers. Well if someone independently started a Linux programming forum

channels on irc.freenode.net are free. they work well. however, i
suspect that few of us have time to hang on in such a place. mailing
lists work well for toolkits and libraries, because they are
asynchronous.