Preface: The Project

Goals for X Window Course

Introduction

Part I. Using X Window System and the Graphical User Interface.
 

Chapter X1. An Introduction to the X-Window System

• X Window: A Graphical Story
• The Model
• The client Server Philosophy
• Logging in X
• The elements of the X-Window graphic interface
• The graphic terminal: " xterm "
• The Common Dektop Enviroment: CDE
• K Desktop Enviroment: KDE and the Qt libraries
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The "X" file
• Setting the number of bits-per-pixel: bpp
• Installing XFree
• The "/etc/XF86Config" file
• Customizing the "startx" script
• Installing and configuring "xdm"
• Customizing a window manager
• twm: the first windows manager
• mwm: OSF/Motif window manager (MS-Window like)
• Customizing mouse and keyboard
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• What is a resource?
• Colors in X Window
• The fonts in X Window ?
• What is a "Translation Table" ?
• Global resources: The directory "app-defaults"
• Local resources: The file .Xresources
• Modifying an application's resources
• Static (fixed) modifications.
• Real-time (run-time) modifications.
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• CDE: A Modern Graphical Interfaces: CDE
• The elements of the CDE
• Customizing the CDE
• CDE Applications
• Conclusions
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The KDE Project
• Launching KDE
• Login from klogin
• Launching KDE Applications
• The Elements of the Desktop
• Customizing KDE
• What is a theme ?
• What is a style ?
• What is a window decoration ?
• What is an icon theme ?
• The Kcontrol
• Modifying the language environment
• The dashboard (kicker)
• The KDE Themes
• KDE Styles
• KDE Icons
• K applications
• The Konqueror
• Administration Applications
• Multimedia elements
• Networking Applications
• Graphics Applications
• Games Applications
• KOffice
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• GNOME: The GNU Choice
• Elements of GNOME Interface
• GNOME or KDE ?
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Part II. X Window Programming.
 

Chapter X7. An Introduction to X-Window Programming

• Programming the X Window System
• Levels of X-Window programming
• The Toolkit:Xt Intrinsics
• OSF/Motif
• CDE
• Programming X with C++
• An Introduction to the toolkit: Qt from Troll
• Programming X with Tcl/Tk
• Programming X with JAVA
• Graphical Scripting Languages
• Compiling an X program: xmkmf
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Understanding the Development of Graphical Applications
• The X Window System skeleton program
• Changing Widget on the same applications
• The Widget
• The Athena Widget
• The Callbacks
• A Tour of XLib Library
• The MIT  X Window Manual Set
• X11 Manual Pages
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The model of an OSF/Motif application
• Display widgets
• Manager and Container widgets
• Dialog widgets
• Menus
• Gadgets
• The "periodic" Table of the OSF/Motif elements
• The OpenMotif Source Tree
• How to develop an application: A Verbal FlowChart
• Create a Motif from "scratch"

Adapting an existing project
• The UIL
• A short Story of Motif Builders
• The ICS BX Pro
• The CDE Builder
• The Xmt Toolkit
• The Offcial Motif Documentation
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• What is CDE© ?
• The CDE development tools
• The Desktop Korn Shell: "dtksh"
• The CDE Application Builder: "dtbuilder"
• The graphic elements of development
• Source generation
• Project maintenance
• CDE Documentation
• Conclusions
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• A Short Story about the Qt libraries
• Downloading and nstalling the Qt libraries
• An introduction to the Qt development
• Developing Qt applications: A tutorial
• Signals and Slots
• Browsing the Qt Widgets Classes
• KDE Development
• A KDE application model
• The KDE Developer Style Guide
• Icons
• Moving Xt and Motif Applications to Qt
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• The Development of Commercial Applications
• What's Qt Designer?
• The Qt designer Widget organization
• A first application
• KDE Application design Workflow
• An example: MyLibrary
• The Database design
• The Front-End design
• The DataTable Widget
• The Qt Designer Databrowser Widget
• What happens if we add more rows?
• Using kdevelop
• Create a project from scratch
• Take control on a kdevelop project
• Conclusions
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Chapter X13. Using the Gtk Toolkit

• Why GNOME ?
• The Gtk Libraries
• My first Gtk application
• The GNOME API: GLib, GDK and family
• Differences between Gtk and Qt
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Tcl ... What is Tcl ?
• The Tcl Toolkit: Tk
• The "wish"
• The Tk Builder: SpecTcl
• First Examples with SpecTcl
• Example 1: The Button
• Example 2: The List
• Example 3: The menus
• Example 4: The Combo-box
• Example 5. A simple dialog mask
• Example 6. Loading text with a scaled font
• How to call Functions in Tcl/Tk
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• Scripts like programs
• Graphical Applications in PERL
• Graphical Applications in Python
• Tkinter
• PyQt/PyKDE
• Graphical Scripts vs Binaries
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

• What is XWT ?
• Is XWT AnyWhere ?
• Running Remotely
• Running locally
• XWT Licenses
• A XWT Sample
• Exercises
• Test
• Internet resources about this chapter

Appendix XA. Complete Linux Command Reference for X Programs

Appendix XC: The Design of FTX

Appendix XD: Xterm Control Sequence

Appendix XE: Standard Mouse Cursor

Appendix XP: Answers to all exercises

Bibliography