Tabel of Contents:-

1. Introduction
2. Fire up the GIMP
3. First Steps With Wilber
4. Getting Unstuck
5. Getting Images Into GIMP
6. Getting images out of GIMP
7. Painting with GIMP
8. Combining Images
9. Enhancing Photographs
10. Color Management with GIMP
11. Pimp my GIMP
12. Scripting
13. Toolbox
14. Dialogs
15. Menus
16. Filters

The OPEN LOOK GUI is a popular user interface style (also called a “graphical user interface,” or GUI) for programs running on window systems like The X Window System. X11
itself is a network-based graphics windowing system developed at MIT and widely adopted as an industry standard. But X11 only provides the foundation and skeleton of a
window system, just as concrete and wood provide the foundation and framework for a house. The material that you put on the outside will significantly affect both how the final

The title of this book, Grokking the GIMP, is drawn from Robert A. Heinlein's classic science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. His story is about Valentine Michael Smith, the only survivor of the first human expedition to Mars and raised from infancy by Martians. The rescue mission arrives twenty years later to bring a young man knowing nothing of his own kind back to earth. The story recounts his repatriation and his adventures as he comes to grok the human race and his place in it.

Table Of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Starting XEmacs
3. The XEmacs Window
4. Restarting XEmacs
5. Opening a File
6. Moving Around in XEmacs
7. Editing a Document
8. Searching
9. Search and Replace
10. Deleting and Pasting
11. Saving the Document and Getting Out of Trouble
12. Brief XEmacs Command Summary
13. Other Resources

With KDE, a UNIX dream came true—a friendly, graphical environment for the user and a sophisticated application development framework for the developer. Well, to be perfectly precise, it didn't just come true. There is not much point in the free software world just waiting for something. Ultimately, somebody has to sit down and write the code. And many people did exactly this, in hundreds of thousands of uncounted hours during their spare time. This makes KDE even more interesting.