Books on linux graphics programming

[Scott Lanning]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have over 20 years of programming experience in C and C++, but virtually
> no graphics programming. While I am between contracts, I have a few
> projects that I would like to replace the text interfaces with graphics. I
> would like to grab a good book on the subject to come up to speed.
> I have some experience with KDevelop so a boot that focuses on QT would be
> fine.

My favorite for GUI programming is wxWindows (C++):
http://www.wxwindows.org/
I don't think there is a book, though,
but the documentation is awesome.
It's cross-platform (uses native widget set) and has been
around 10 years. Also it has Perl bindings, which is how
I generally use it :) but there are Python bindings too.