Subject: Re: X Documentation
From: Stephen Lewis (lewis@napanet.net)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 01:14:04 MST
There are plenty of books about X at all levels
Try doing a search for books on X-windows.
There are over 20 here:
http://www.powells.com/subsection/UnixXWindows.html
and 69 at O'Reilly:
http://search.oreilly.com/cgi-bin/search?term=X+windows&category=All&pref=all
Stephen Lewis
>
> Re: X Documentation
> Date:
> Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:19:49 -0500
> From:
> Patrick Callahan <pac1@tiac.net>
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> yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To:
> yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, bltnewuser@topica.com, feedback@linuxdoc.org
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>
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> November 20, 2001
> The linux documentation project has
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XWindow-Overview-HOWTO.html
> and
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XWindow-User-HOWTO.html
>
> contain some of what I'm looking for. They provide high level views of X
> windows for the most part. While the User Howto does get into specifics, its
> limited in that it explores one possible windows setup.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I think both of these and the other X howtos are
> valuable. They just dont contain the kind of material I'm really looking for.
>
> The kind of documentation I'm looking for is different from
> program documentation and a howto. It does not limit itself to a single
> program, or even to X itself. Its purpose is not to describe specific tasks.
> Instead its purpose is to lay out the whole landscape in a comprehensible way
> at multiple levels of detail.
>
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