Hello World using Xlib

24年 11月 7日 Thursday

72 words

1 minutes

recreational programming

c programming , xorg , x11

Welcome to the Linux's graphics stack!

required arch linux package: libx11

the source code is available on GitLab.:

screenshot of the program on DWM: hello world window

the code is modified version from this great article, see also useful post from unix.stackexchange.com.

other references:

X basics
Xlib - more comprehensive tutorial
mailing list - debate on DWM folks about xcb vs xlib
not related to Xlib, but I want to put it here anyway: Wayland vs Xorg discussion on suckless subreddit

Title：Hello World using Xlib

Author：ReYuki

Link：https://www.reyuki.site/posts/hello-world-xlib [copy]

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