Gautam Balasubramanian
hey!!
boss
i have doubt!!
yu know what is "x window??"
6 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
yes
the system that offers gui to linux
its basically like a daemon or service
in linux
5 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
can yu enlight me....
5 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
not integrated into kernel like windows
so gnome/kde do calls to x window system
5 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
oh!!we can access file system..
its like gnome
unity
5 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
no... x window is for gui
5 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
kde
???
5 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
eh
5 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
not like.. unity/gnome/kde are one layer above x window
its like this... lowest is kernel
on top of that x window
on top of that gnome/ kde/ unity
4 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
oh!!oh!!:)
what are the functions it provides...
will nything makes request to it...
?
3 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
yes
to draw windows etc i guess. not worked on it. let me take a look
3 minutes agoGautam Balasubramanian
oh!!
if yu find ny article on this can yu share! boss
2 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
XOpenDisplay()
XCreateSimpleWindow()
XMapWindow()
XFlush()
XCloseDisplay()
XSelectInput()
XNextEvent()
2 minutes agoAnirudh Ranganath Narasimhan
http://xwindow.angelfire.com/page2.html
http://www.unix-manuals.com/tutorials/xlib/xlib.html
the above seemed good..
so x windows is like a service.. u have to make calls to it ...
so if u want to access file system, you make calls to kernel.. using ls etc, and then make appropriate icons in x window system to display the files with clickable icons
A few seconds agoGautam Balasubramanian
oh!!
will read the links!!