Contents

• List of Figures
• Overview of X Windows
  • Using X from a Terminal
  • How to use X in a C program
  • Useful Online facilities
  • Useful Books and Manuals
• Starting Up
  • Opening a Display Server
  • Finding out about the display
  • Creating & Destroying Windows
  • Mapping, Moving & Uncovering Windows
  • Defining Bitmaps and Pixmaps
• Graphics Context
• Rectangles, lines, dots, arcs and text
  • Drawing Text in a Window
  • Finding the Width of Characters
  • Printing Characters on the Screen
  • Creating Cursors
  • Examples
• Events: Input from a Window
  • Event types
  • KeyBoard Encoding
  • Examples
• Using Colour
  • Allocating Color cells
  • Read Only Colorcells: An easy Example
• Programming Tips
  • Catching Exposure Events
  • Avoiding multiple Exposure
  • Coping with Exposures
  • Catching Motion Events
  • Getting arguments
  • Colors
  • Errors
• Working with other clients and Window Managers
  • Naming windows and defining icons
  • Property Lists
• Inter client communication
  • Selections
  • Buffers
• Miscellaneous Routines
  • Pointer control
  • Keyboard Control
  • Images
  • Regions
  • Access Control
  • More On Events
  • Grabbing
  • More On Fonts
  • More On Color
• Glossary
• About this document ...

List of Examples