Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups

From	MrSpud_6wa4@1h0c.net
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups
Date	2021-07-15 14:34 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:20:58 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
>MrSpud_0zkkxn6jj@uncf5cotva75ujdt.gov writes:
>>On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:02:08 -0000 (UTC)
>>Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> wrote:
>>>FWIW, I'm attempting to write an X11 Display Manager using low-level Xlib
>>>calls,
>>>not because there are no X11 Display Managers available, but because I wish
>to
>>>learn about X11, and I would like a Display Manager that works the way /I/
>want
>>>
>>>it to work.
>>
>>Good luck with that (genuinely, I'm not being sarcastic). I wrote one about
>>20 years ago and it was a fun project to do but the problem was that even
>>the venerable O'Reilly XLib manuals didn't provide all the information
>>required as they're more geared towards developing user applications. In the
>>end I had to look through other code to see how stuff was done but even then
>>some things I never got working properly.
>>
>
>Hm.. All the X11Rx code is open source; it's easy enough to use the
>source of libX11, libXt, and libXaw as a reference.

The source of another window manager would be a lot more useful IMO as
looking at the source of the above won't show you how to use the required
APIs without doing some reverse engineering nor will it show you what to
use when.

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  Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 16:26 +0100
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    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 12:55 -0700
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    Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2021-07-05 14:13 -0700
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      Re: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Switch to free (Thunderbird and eternal-september) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-07-06 08:22 +0200
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                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_0zkkxn6jj@uncf5cotva75ujdt.gov - 2021-07-15 08:27 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-07-15 14:20 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_6wa4@1h0c.net - 2021-07-15 14:34 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-15 14:59 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_8nnwe@ko9uz7rn4n552n6rutmfe.eu - 2021-07-16 09:33 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-16 15:33 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_Ccq3_3_r@atc_rakxp6.info - 2021-07-17 15:04 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2021-07-17 16:30 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups MrSpud_2fxg@cligh74ct.info - 2021-07-19 07:50 +0000
                Re: Wheel re-invention (Was: comp.lang.c blocked on Google Groups "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2021-07-19 00:53 -0700
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