Interested in developing a graphical user interface application for Linux, but not sure where to start?
As a first step, you select a fitting graphical user interface (GUI) library, followed by a programming language to develop your application in. wxWidgets is such a GUI library for C++. It’s also cross-platform and even offers bindings for other programming languages. This article helps you get started with developing a GUI application using wxWidgets on Linux.
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