This book is for programmers who are familiar with Release 4 of the X Window System and want to know how to use the new features of Release 5. It is intended as an update for owners of Volumes 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the O'Reilly and Associates X Window System series, and provides complete tutorial and reference information on all new Xlib and Xt toolkit functions.It Together with Volume 2 and Volume 5, owners of the Programmer's Supplement for Release 5 have a complete set of reference pages for the current X Consortium standards for Xlib and Xt.
David Flanagan is a computer programmer who has spent much of the last 20 years writing books about programming languages. He now works at Mozilla. David lives with his wife and children in the Pacific Northwest, between the cities of Seattle and Vancouver.