Xlib Programming Manual
by Adrian Nye · first published 1988
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The X Windows System: - Volume 0: X Protocol Reference Manual - Volume 1: Xlib Programming Manual - Volume 2: Xlib Reference Manual - Volume 3: X Window System User’s Guide - Volume 4: X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual - Volume 5: X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual - Volume 6: Motif Programming Manual - Volume 7a: XView Programming Manual - [Volume 7b: XView Reference Manual](/works/OL3
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…memories... For people who did not have (or have not seen) the full set of O'Reilly's X books, I still remember the whole series, since I had it on the shelf behind me: 0: X Protocol Reference Manual 1: Xlib Programming Manual 2: Xlib Reference Manual 3: X Window System User's Guide 3M: X Window System User's Guide OSF/Motif Edition 3O: OPEN LOOK User's Guide (never published) 4: XToolkit Programming Manual…
on “X Window System Administrator's Guide: For X Version 11” ↗…funny you should mention circles! It's so just much fun filling and stroking arcs and circles correctly with X11. From the horse's mouth: https://archive.org/details/xlibprogrammingm01adri/page/144/... Xlib Programming Manual and Xlib Reference Manual, Section 6.1.4, pp 144: >To be more precise, the filling and drawing versions of the rectangle routines don't draw even the same outline if given the same arguments. >The routine…
on “Ancient X11 scaling technology” ↗