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NAME
XStandards - X Consortium Standards
SYNOPSIS
The major goal of the X Consortium is to promote coopera
tion within the computer industry in the creation of stan
dard software interfaces at all layers in the X Window
System environment. The status of various standards, and
the software in the X11R6.1 distribution, is explained
below.
STANDARDS
The following documents are X Consortium standards:
X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Robert W. Scheifler
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.1
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse
Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks
Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Robert W. Scheifler
X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.5
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea
X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Keith Packard
X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Keith Packard
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X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
George Sachs, Mark Patrick
X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Mark Patrick, George Sachs
The X Font Service Protocol
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Jim Fulton
PEX Protocol Specification
Version 5.1
Cheryl Huntington (architect), Paula Womack (editor)
PEXlib Specification and C Language Binding
Version 5.1
Jeff Stevenson
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Ralph Mor
X Session Management Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Mike Wexler
X Session Management Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Ralph Mor
The Input Method Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura
X Synchronization Extension
Version 3.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins
X Image Extension, Protocol Reference Manual
Version 5.0
X Version 11 Release 6.1 2
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X Version 11, Release 6.1
Bob Shelley
X Image Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Gary Rogers
XTEST Extension
Version 2.2
Kieron Drake
Big Requests Extension
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Bob Scheifler
XC-MISC Extension
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Bob Scheifler, Dave Wiggins
Double Buffer Extension
Version 1.0
Ian Elliott, David P. Wiggins
Record Extension Protocol
Version 1.13
Martha Zimet, Stephen Gildea
Record Extension Library
Version 1.13
Martha Zimet, Stephen Gildea
X Keyboard Extension Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Erik Fortune
X Keyboard Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 6.1
Amber J. Benson, Gary Aitken, Erik Fortune, Donna Converse,
George Sachs, and Will Walker
DRAFT STANDARDS
The following documents are currently draft standards of
the X Consortium.
PEX Protocol Specification
Version 5.2
Jeff Stevenson (architect), Jane Sczechowski (editor)
PEXlib Specification and C Language Binding
Version 5.2
Karl Schultz
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INCLUDE FILES
The following include files are part of the Xlib standard.
<X11/cursorfont.h>
<X11/keysym.h>
<X11/keysymdef.h>
<X11/X.h>
<X11/Xatom.h>
<X11/Xcms.h>
<X11/Xlib.h>
<X11/Xlibint.h>
<X11/Xproto.h>
<X11/Xprotostr.h>
<X11/Xresource.h>
<X11/Xutil.h>
<X11/X10.h>
The following include files are part of the X Toolkit
Intrinsics standard.
<X11/Composite.h>
<X11/CompositeP.h>
<X11/Constraint.h>
<X11/ConstrainP.h>
<X11/Core.h>
<X11/CoreP.h>
<X11/Intrinsic.h>
<X11/IntrinsicP.h>
<X11/Object.h>
<X11/ObjectP.h>
<X11/RectObj.h>
<X11/RectObjP.h>
<X11/Shell.h>
<X11/ShellP.h>
<X11/StringDefs.h>
<X11/Vendor.h>
<X11/VendorP.h>
The following include file is part of the Nonrectangular
Window Shape Extension standard.
<X11/extensions/shape.h>
The following include files are part of the X Input Exten
sion standard.
<X11/extensions/XI.h>
<X11/extensions/XInput.h>
<X11/extensions/XIproto.h>
The following include files are part of the PEXlib stan
dard.
<X11/PEX5/PEX.h>
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<X11/PEX5/PEXlib.h>
<X11/PEX5/PEXlibint.h>
<X11/PEX5/PEXproto.h>
<X11/PEX5/PEXprotost.h>
The following include files are part of the ICElib stan
dard.
<X11/ICE/ICE.h>
<X11/ICE/ICEconn.h>
<X11/ICE/ICElib.h>
<X11/ICE/ICEmsg.h>
<X11/ICE/ICEproto.h>
<X11/ICE/ICEutil.h>
The following include files are part of the SMlib stan
dard.
<X11/SM/SM.h>
<X11/SM/SMlib.h>
<X11/SM/SMproto.h>
The following include file is part of the Synchronization
standard.
<X11/extensions/sync.h>
The following include files are part of the XIElib standard.
<X11/extensions/XIE.h>
<X11/extensions/XIElib.h>
<X11/extensions/XIEproto.h>
<X11/extensions/XIEprotost.h>
The following include file is part of the XTEST standard.
<X11/extensions/XTest.h>
The following include file is part of the Double Buffer
Extension standard.
<X11/extensions/Xdbe.h>
The following include file is part of the Record Library
standard.
<X11/extensions/record.h>
The following include files are part of the X Keyboard
Extension Library standard.
<X11/XKBlib.h>
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<X11/extensions/XKB.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBproto.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBstr.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBgeom.h>
NON STANDARDS
The X11R6.1 distribution contains sample implementations,
not reference implementations. Although much of the code
is believed to be correct, the code should be assumed to
be in error wherever it conflicts with the specification.
The only X Consortium standards are the ones listed above.
No other documents, include files, or software in X11R6.1
carry special status within the X Consortium. For exam
ple, none of the following are standards: internal inter
faces of the sample server; the MIT-SHM extension; the
Athena Widget Set; the Xmu library; the Xau library; the
RGB database; the fonts distributed with X11R6.1; the
applications distributed with X11R6.1; the include files
<X11/XWDFile.h> <X11/Xfuncproto.h> <X11/Xfuncs.h>
<X11/Xosdefs.h> <X11/Xos.h> and <X11/Xthreads.h> the
bitmap files in <X11/bitmaps>
The Multi-Buffering extension was a draft standard of the
X Consortium but has been superseded by DBE as a standard.
X REGISTRY
The X Consortium maintains a registry of certain X-related
items, to aid in avoiding conflicts and to aid in sharing
of such items.
The registry is published as part of the X Consortium
software release. The latest version is always available
by sending a message to xstuff@x.org. The message can
have a subject line and no body, or a single-line body and
no subject, in either case the line looking like:
send docs registry
The X Registry and the names in it are not X Consortium
standards.
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