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by Steffen Ploetz
How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of composite widgets.
by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based ribbon application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#
by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application with WPF geometry objects (shapes).
by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based dialog application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#

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9 Mar 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of composite widgets.
29 Oct 2014 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based ribbon application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#
12 Jun 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application with WPF geometry objects (shapes).
10 Oct 2014 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article shows 'how to' a XAML based dialog application with the Roma Widget Set (Xrw) in C#
9 Mar 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget set in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Short introduction of the widgets.
9 Nov 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article introduces a XAML based Minesweeper game with WPF.
21 Jan 2014 by Steffen Ploetz
How to call native X11 API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little application.
30 Sep 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article introduces a XAML based 7 segment LCD display utilizing a WPF UserControl.
25 Jan 2016 by Samuel Teixeira
Why simple if we can be complex?
22 Sep 2016 by Steffen Ploetz
This tip shall help to select the desired GCFunction for fill operations.
24 Mar 2017 by Steffen Ploetz
This article introduces a small tool (much simpler than sandcaste help file builder) to create HTML help for .NET/MONO assemblies and reviews the XAML based approach to create GUI application with the Roma Widget Set XrwXAML.
13 Aug 2014 by Steffen Ploetz
How to get out the maximum from the Roma Widget Set's list and tree widgets in C#.
26 Sep 2016 by Steffen Ploetz
How to calculate a radial gradient and draw the output on a System.Drawing.Bitmap. And how to use this bitmap as a tile pixmap to fill any path.
17 Sep 2013 by Steffen Ploetz
How to call native Xm API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Motif widget application.
14 Mar 2021 by Steffen Ploetz
Draw text using Cairo from C# with full control over character positioning, linebreaking, etc.
14 Feb 2017 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing the DrawingBrush with offset and tiles.
13 Oct 2018 by Steffen Ploetz
How to use GL's pixel buffer object (PBO) to copy one texture to another
30 Nov 2012 by gxsheng
Hi ,guys, I am making a program on LINUX , with MONO as GUI and OpenGL/X11/C++ as renderer . The connection between them is P/Invoke. Worrying about effeciency , I decide not to use CSharp wrapper of OpenGL directly.So the structure is like this : ...
3 May 2014 by Nei Sa
I want to Change focus of One window to another window. I have done this task in Windows and now I want to do same task for the Linux / Ubuntu OS using X11.. Suppose we have opened two applications Runtime run = Runtime.getRuntime();Process prog = run.exec("gedit"); Process prog2 =...
4 May 2014 by TorstenH.
//Runtime run = Runtime.getRuntime(); // That's static stuff, please do not instance it.Runtime.getRuntime().exec("gedit"); Runtime.getRuntime().exec("gcalctool"); Those commands are executing apps. These commands do NOT change focus. Only reason Calculator is in front of...
6 May 2014 by wikus70
I can't seem to find any library that you can import into Java to allow window switching on Linux. What you can do is create a shell script to do the work for you and just call that shell script from your java application. The user needs "wmctrl" installed though....
17 Jun 2014 by Nei Sa
How can I change focus of one window to another window using X11 with JAVA. I want to perform switching between windows which are already opened.
3 Nov 2017 by Member 13376650
I have an ARM-based nanopi-m1 board. I have installed Armbian(Ubuntu-server 16.04) on it. Also I have installed : xorg, openbox, xserver-x11-video-fbdev and libgtk-3-dev on it. and made three .conf files: Add to file /etc/modules-load.d/fbtft.conf spi-bcm2835 fbtft_device Add to file...
3 Nov 2017 by Jochen Arndt
It looks like you have enabled X11-Forwarding for the SSH client on your laptop. Then the output of the X11 application is send to the SSH client and shown there. The setlocale[^] function of the C library is used to specify how locale dependant values (dates, times, numeric values, monetary...
19 Nov 2020 by Jens Eckervogt
Hello everyone, I have tried to resolve with XDrawRectangles under C#: Displaying = OK Drawing = So bad! How do I fix ff I have tried to created Rectangle as Structure for X11/Xlib? Looks like this simple: namespace X { public static...
21 Oct 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
How to develop Linux/Unix (X11) GUI applications in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Description of simple widgets.
9 Mar 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
How to get out the maximum from the Roma widget in C# efficiently without dependencies to GUI frameworks like GTK or KDE. Basics and description of concepts.
30 May 2018 by mattkol
Build .NET/.NET Core HTML5 desktop apps using cross-platform native GUI API
14 Sep 2013 by Steffen Ploetz
How to call native Xt API from Mono Develop C# ending up in a very little Athena widget application.
22 Nov 2014 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing massive data binding with zero code.
3 Aug 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
How to draw transparent and gradient output on a X11 window unsing the (low level API) XRender protocol extension for X11.
2 Feb 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application with basic menu, clipboard & validation features.
7 Nov 2013 by Steffen Ploetz
How to use Free Widget Foundation Xt compatible widgets from Mono Develop C#
16 Aug 2015 by Steffen Ploetz
Currently none of the big Linux/Unix (X11) GUI application frameworks (GTK+, KDE) support XAML based application development. The Moonlight project (including XAML support) was abandoned on May 29, 2012. This article reviews a XAML based application utilizing WPF UserControls.
6 Oct 2021 by Cloudster
Moving from X11 with NVIDIA drivers to Wayland may require more configuration