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On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:05:59 -0700, Malcolm McLean wrote:

> On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 15:02:13 UTC+1, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:59:06 -0700, Malcolm McLean wrote: 
>> 
>> > On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 14:34:56 UTC+1, Scott Lurndal wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> >Qt works on any pplatform unlike GTK which requires X11... 
>> >> That doesn't mean it isn't built on top of X11. And QT (Trolltech) 
>> >> originally targeted Unix systems. 
>> >> 
>> > It's cross platform. I'd be surprised if it still uses X11 for the Unix build, 
>> > XCB has taken over (basically XCB gives you surfaces on which the client 
>> > renders using its own code, X11 gives you a graphics context which provides 
>> > its own draw routines and fonts).
>> I'm afraid that you've confused X11 (a networked grapic UI protocol) with 
>> Xlib (a low-level C library that implements an API to manipulate the X11 
>> protocol). 
>> 
> Oh you're right. xlib is linked via -lX11, which is an excuse.

libX11 is the name of the library which implementes the Xlib API. Admittedly,
the authors named it poorly, but it /was/ the reference implementation for the
X11 protocol for quite a while.


-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"

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