There are several Motif tutorials available on the net, we only list a couple of them here :

The Motif Zone is a web presence sponsored by ICS which covers Motif topics, and which contains a collection of articles (you'd call it a magazine if they had fixed release dates) about Motif in The Motif Developer. Articles currently seem to get added twice a month.

Ken Lee's home page has a large amount of information on Motif and X, and has lots of interesting links. Especially he's maintaining a Motif FAQ.

Harry's Motif Corner is Harald Albrecht's home page, which has a number of tips and tricks for Motif programmers. The best item he has of course is The Inside LessTif Book which is a professionally looking book with illustrations describing how LessTif works. You can print the book on any PostScript® printer.

MW3 (Motif on the World Wide Web) is a giant collection of information about Motif. Contains lots of pointers to Motif compliant widgets, applications using Motif, etc. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated for some time now and contains broken links therefore.

SCO has the Motif documentation for 1.2 online at Users Guide, Reference Manual, Programming Guide and Style Guide.

Some general X documentation can be found here.

The Widget FAQ is a list of widgets, freely and commercially alike, some of which can be used easily with Motif or LessTif. A HTML version is at http://reality.sgi.com/widgetFAQ/widget.html, other versions are also available from http://reality.sgi.com/widgetFAQ/.


The LessTif configuration and build process is based on the tools automake, autoconf, and libtool. Ian Lance Taylor wrote a tutorial on these tools. This tutorial is not meant to replace the reference manuals of the tools, it supplements them. The tutorial is now available at http://www.cygnus.com/~ian/configure/.


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