> this makes a lot more sense. thanks. i foolishly assumed that glib was > just some gtk X thing as well, but i now see that it has nothing to do > with X.
It's a library of routines that I think were originally developed as useful routines for GTK+, and it was part of the GTK+ distribution for GTK+ 1.0[.x], but they made it a separate library (still used by GTK+) for GTK+ 1.2[.x]/GLib 1.2[.x].
