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  24 See also <a href="faq.htm">top-level FAQ page</a>.
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  26 <h3>List of questions in this category</h3>
  27 <li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></li>
  28 <li><a href="#gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></li>
  29 <li><a href="#redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></li>
  30 <li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></li>
  31 <li><a href="#bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</li>
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  35 wxWindows 2 for GTK is a port of wxWindows to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>,
  36 which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWindows 2 for GTK is
  37 often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>here</a>.
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  40 <h3><a name="gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></h3>
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  42 Currently wxGTK does not have any features that would involve dependence on any desktop
  43 environment&#39;s libraries, so it can work on GNOME, KDE and with other window managers
  44 without installation hassles. Some GNOME and KDE integration features are file based, and
  45 so may be added without dependence on libraries. Other features may be supported in the
  46 future, probably as a separate library.
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  49 <h3><a name="redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></h3>
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  51 It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK (not wxGTK)
  52 which causes some trouble with wxWindows&#39; socket code. Common symptoms are that when
  53 a client tries to establish a connection to an existing server which refuses the request,
  54 the client will get notified twice, first getting a LOST event and then a CONNECT event.
  55 This problem can be solved by updating GTK with an official distribution of the library.
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  58 <h3><a name="bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</h3>
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  60 Robert Roebling replies:<P>
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  62 "The important thing is the libc version that your app
  63 is linked against. The most recent version is 2.2.5
  64 and programs linked against it will not run with version
  65 2.1.X so that you will fare best if you compile your app
  66 on a 2.1.X system. It will then run on practically all
  67 Linux distros (if you link you app statically against
  68 the image libraries and std C++ lib)."
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