A good book on programming for the X Window System is "Xlib Programming Manual" by Adrian Nye (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc"). I've been using it to try building my own object-oriented "toolkit" using C++. My stuff will never be "production quality", but it really helps understand what is happening at low levels. Ed James 2009/12/28 David Nečas <yeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: ... > I'm afraid to understand what Gdk does cannot be understood without > understading the basic X window system concepts. Because essentially ... _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list