Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!daisy!klee From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,daisy.x Subject: X Window System bibliography Message-ID: <1905@daisy.UUCP> Date: 4 Nov 88 17:50:07 GMT Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca. Lines: 84 The following is my list of technical X Window System material from publically available journals and conference proceedings. Does anyone know of any other good ones, other than the manuals in the distribution? Please send me E-mail and I'll post an updated bibliography. Thanks much. Ken Lee Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept. uucp: {ames!atari, ucbvax!sgi, pyramid, uunet}!daisy!klee arpanet: daisy!klee@sgi.com or daisy!klee@uunet.uu.net ================================================ _B_I_B_L_I_O_G_R_A_P_H_Y Asente, Paul, "Simplicity and Productivity," _U_N_I_X _R_e_v_i_e_w, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 57-63. A discussion on the classing mechanism in the X Toolkit. Gancarz, M., "UWM: A User Interface for X Windows," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_- _i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_m_m_e_r, _1_9_8_6 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 429-440. Gettys, J., "Problems Implementing Window Systems in UNIX," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _W_i_n_t_e_r, _1_9_8_6 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 89- 97. Some of the early work on X. Gosling, J. and D. Rosenthal, "A Window Manager for Bitmapped Displays and UNIX," in _M_e_t_h_o_d_o_l_o_g_y _o_f _W_i_n_d_o_w _M_a_n_a_g_e_r_s, ed. F. R. A. Hopgood et al, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1986. Some of the early work on X. Macklem, Rick, Jim Linders, and Hugh Smith, "G Shell Environ- ment," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_m_m_e_r, _1_9_8_8 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 15-22. A graphical UNIX shell written as a X client. McCormack, Joel and Paul Asente, "Using the X Toolkit or How to Write a Widget," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_m_m_e_r, _1_9_8_8 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 1-13. An excelent tutorial on writing basic X Toolkit widgets. Myers, Brad A., "Window Interfaces: A Taxonomy of Window Manager User Interfaces," _I_E_E_E _C_o_m_p_u_t_e_r _G_r_a_p_h_i_c_s & _A_p_p_l_i_c_a_t_i_o_n_s, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 65-84, September, 1988. A discussion of window system user interfaces, including the X "uwm" window manager. Rao, R. and S. Wallace, "The X Toolkit," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_m_m_e_r, _1_9_8_7 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e. Rosenthal, David S., "Going For Baroque," _U_N_I_X _R_e_v_i_e_w, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 71-79. A version of the "hello, world" paper, presenting and comparing the basics of the X library and the X Toolkit. Rosenthal, David S., "A Simple X.11 Client Program, or, How Hard Can It Really Be to Write `Hello, World'?," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _W_i_n_t_e_r, _1_9_8_8 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 229-235. A ver- sion of the "hello, world" paper, presenting and comparing the basics of the X library and the X Toolkit. Rost, Randi J., "Adding a Dimension to X," _U_N_I_X _R_e_v_i_e_w, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 51-59. A description of the PEX 3D extension to X. Schaufler, Robin, "X11/NeWS Design Overview," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _S_u_m_m_e_r, _1_9_8_8 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 23-35. Compares the functionality of X11 and NeWS and describes a server that merges the two. Scheifler, Robert W. and Jim Gettys, "The X Window System," _A_C_M _T_r_a_n_s_a_c_t_i_o_n_s _o_n _G_r_a_p_h_i_c_s, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 79-109, April, 1986. The first published description of X. Still the most comprehensive source, other than the manuals. Swick, Ralph R. and Mark S. Ackerman, "The X Toolkit: More Bricks for Building User Interfaces," in _P_r_o_c_e_e_d_i_n_g_s _o_f _t_h_e _W_i_n_t_e_r, _1_9_8_8 _U_S_E_N_I_X _C_o_n_f_e_r_e_n_c_e, pp. 221-233. An introduc- tion to the X Toolkit architecture. -- uucp: {ames!atari, ucbvax!sgi, pyramid, uunet}!daisy!klee arpanet: daisy!klee@sgi.com or daisy!klee@uunet.uu.net I'm not a tourist, I was born in California.