Posted by Sven Gothel on Jan 14, 2012; 1:29am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Ubuntu-11-10-64bit-and-AWT-vs-NEWT-tp3654908p3658157.html

On Saturday, January 14, 2012 02:25:16 AM Martin Hegedus [via jogamp] wrote:
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> Oh, glxgears works under Gallium but glxgears.c uses XCreateWindow and
> glXCreateContext.  So I guess it interfaces with Xlib directly.  Is that
> similar to NEWT?  
Yes. NEWT uses plain ole and 'simple' Xlib :)

> Maybe the widget class used by Motif (Xt layer) or GTK+,
> Qt, etc. would be different.  That may be more similar to AWT?  
Yes.

> I'm not sure
> if Java interfaces directly with Xlib or goes through Xt.
Hmm .. don't remember. No more motif for sure, AFAIK plain Xlib too
or it has gtk dependencies.

~Sven