GRASS with XWindows

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Duncan Kinder wrote:

> 1) How does XWindows affect network performance?

  I cannot notice any performance differences between console apps running
across the network and X Window apps running across the same network. Then
again, we're running fast ethernet (100 Mbps).

> 2) The only XWindows books I have been able to find are some rather old
> O'Reilly books.  Are there any newer books or are those O'Reilly books still
> good?

  X Window System is a server. It talks directly to your hardware and is
intermediate between the hardware and your application software. Unless you
have latent maschochistic tendencies, you don't want to program X at a very
low level. Folks use GUI client APIs such as Motif, Lesstif, Qt, gtk+ or tk.
If the API is interpreted it will be slower than if it's compiled.

HTH,

Rich

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