NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       XStandards - X Consortium Standards

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       The following documents are currently draft  standards  of
       the X Consortium.

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 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 standard.

       <X11/extensions/multibuf.h>

NON STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

       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 standards: internal interfaces
 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; 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  Keyboard  Extension;  Record
       Extension.



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