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In article <2nq8h6$7l3@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> eshneken@wam.umd.edu
(Edward A. Shnekendorf) writes:

>   Can anyone recommend a book which gives a good introduction to X
>  windows and talks about things like customizing the environment
>  (all those millions of dot files you find on the glue machines).

 O'Reilly & Associates publishes many books which seem to have become
the canonical reference for X related stuff. "X Window System User's
Guide" vol. III explains how to customize the X environment.

>   Also is the standard Motif programming book the best one to get, or
> is there another book that people have had particularly good
> experiences with.

 O'Reilly's "Motif Programming Manual" vol. 6 covers the "how to's" of
basic Motif toolkit programming with many examples. Source code for
all the manuals is available from many places (ftp.x.org, ftp.uu.net,
O'Reilly has their own site which I can't remember the name of). Vol
6B is a reference manual to the Motif toolkit. If you want to try
programming Motif from C++ (still somewhat problematic, at least until
the introduction of Fresco with X11r6) Douglas Young's book "Object
Oriented Programming with C++ and OSF/Motif" is a good start.

  Maryland Book Exchange, et al., have many tons of O'Reilly and other
X related books literally falling of the shelves... Look Out!!!!
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eric
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