The guide to X window system

Question

The X window system (and its popular implementation X.org) is amazing and complex too - client server model, forwarding the display to other systems, support for wide array of devices, primitive drawing functions. Moreover, the many ways to configure.

However there is no definitive guide to it which can teach it hands on. Can you please suggest any?

This post looks incomplete. Comments welcome.

Answer 1

http://www.linfo.org/x.html

Answer 2

I would recommend the HOWTOs from the Linux Documentation project, specifically The X Window User HOWTO and the X Window System Architecture Overview HOWTO.

Answer 3

You could try getting your hands on a copy of X Window System: The Complete Reference by Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys

Answer 4

You may want to have a look at XCB for a fresh start into low-level Xorg developing: http://xcb.freedesktop.org/