XStandards(1X)XStandards(1X)NAMEXStandards - X Consortium Standards
SYNOPSIS
The major goal of the X Consortium is to promote cooperation within the
computer industry in the creation of standard software interfaces at
all layers in the X Window System environment. The status of various
standards, and the software in the X11R6 distribution, is explained
below.
DESCRIPTION
The following documents are X Consortium standards:
X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6
Robert W. Scheifler
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 6
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 6
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse
Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 6
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6
David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks
Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6
Robert W. Scheifler
X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.5
X Version 11, Release 6
Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea
X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Keith Packard
X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Keith Packard
X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
George Sachs, Mark Patrick
X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 6
Mark Patrick, George Sachs
The X Font Service Protocol
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6
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
Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Ralph Mor
X Session Management Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Mike Wexler
X Session Management Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Ralph Mor
The Input Method Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura
X Synchronization Extension
Version 3.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins
X Image Extension, Protocol Reference Manual
Version 5.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Bob Shelley
XTEST Extension
Version 2.2
Kieron Drake
Big Requests Extension
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6
Bob Scheifler
XC-MISC Extension
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6
Bob Scheifler, Dave Wiggins </simplelist>
DRAFT STANDARDS
The following documents are currently draft standards of the X Consor‐
tium.
X Image Extension Library
Public Review Draft
Gary Rogers
Extending X for Double-Buffering, Multi-Buffering, and Stereo
Version 3.3
Public Review Draft
Jeffrey Friedberg, Larry Seiler, Jeff Vroom </simplelist>
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 stan‐
dard.
<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 Extension standard.
<X11/extensions/XI.h>
<X11/extensions/XInput.h>
<X11/extensions/XIproto.h>
The following include files are part of the PEXlib standard.
<X11/PEX5/PEX.h>
<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 standard.
<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 standard.
<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 draft 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 Multi-Buffering draft stan‐
dard.
<X11/extensions/multibuf.h>
NON STANDARDS
The X11R6 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 carry special status
within the X Consortium. For example, none of the following are stan‐
dards: internal interfaces of the sample server; the MIT-SHM extension;
the Athena Widget Set; the Xmu library; the Xau library; the RGB data‐
base; the fonts distributed with X11R6; the applications distributed
with X11R6; 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 following are works in progress within the X Consortium, and are
neither standards nor draft standards: Fresco; Low Bandwidth X; X Key‐
board Extension; Record Extension.
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