XSTANDARDS(7)XSTANDARDS(7)NAMEXStandards - X Consortium Standards and X Project Team
Specifications
SYNOPSIS
The major goal of the X Consortium was 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 X Consortium produced standards -
documents which defined network protocols, programming
interfaces, and other aspects of the X environment. These
standards continue to exist in The Open Group's X Project
Team releases. The X Project Team produces specifica-
tions. Like X Consortium Standards, these are documents
which define network protocols, programming interfaces,
and other aspects of the X environment. Under the aegis
of The Open Group, X Consortium standards, X Project Team
specifications, and other specifications are the basis for
portions of The Open Group's various CAE specifications.
The status of various standards, specifications, and the
software in the X11R6.4 distribution, is explained below.
STANDARDS
The following documents are X Consortium standards:
X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Robert W. Scheifler
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.4
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse
Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks
Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Robert W. Scheifler
X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.5
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X Version 11, Release 6.4
Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea
X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Keith Packard
X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Keith Packard
X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
George Sachs, Mark Patrick
X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Mark Patrick, George Sachs
The X Font Service Protocol
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
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 6.4
Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Ralph Mor
X Session Management Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Mike Wexler
X Session Management Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Ralph Mor
X Version 11 Release 6.4 2
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The Input Method Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura
X Synchronization Extension
Version 3.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins
X Image Extension, Protocol Reference Manual
Version 5.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Bob Shelley
XTEST Extension
Version 2.2
Kieron Drake
Big Requests Extension
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Bob Scheifler
XC-MISC Extension
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.4
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 6.4
Erik Fortune
X Keyboard Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Amber J. Benson, Gary Aitken, Erik Fortune, Donna Converse,
George Sachs, and Will Walker
X Print Extension Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.4
X Print Extension Library
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X Version 11, Release 6.4
X Application Group Extension Protocol and Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Kaleb Keithley
X Security Extension Protocol and Library
Version 4.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Dave Wiggins
X Proxy Manager Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Ralph Swick
LBX Extension Protocol and Library
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Keith Packard, Dave Lemke, Donna Converse, Ralph Mor, Ray Tice
Remote Execution MIME Type
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.4
Arnaud Le Hors
SPECIFICATIONS
The following documents are X Project Team specifications:
Colormap Utilization Policy and Extension
Version 1.0
Kaleb Keithley
Extended Visual Information Extension
Version 1.0
Peter Daifuku
X Display Power Management (DPMS) Extension Protocol and Library
Version 1.0
Rob Lembree
DRAFT STANDARDS
The following documents are currently draft standards of
the X Consortium.
X Image Extension Library
Public Review Draft
Gary Rogers
PEX Protocol Specification
Version 5.2
Jeff Stevenson (architect), Jane Sczechowski (editor)
PEXlib Specification and C Language Binding
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Version 5.2
Karl Schultz
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>
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The following include files are part of the PEXlib stan-
dard.
<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 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 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 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
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Extension Library standard.
<X11/XKBlib.h>
<X11/extensions/XKB.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBproto.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBstr.h>
<X11/extensions/XKBgeom.h>
The following include files are part of the X Print Exten-
sion Library standard.
<X11/extensions/Print.h>
<X11/extensions/Printstr.h>
The following include files are part of the X Application
Group Extension Library standard.
<X11/extensions/Xag.h>
<X11/extensions/Xagstr.h>
The following include files are part of the X Security
Extension Library standard.
<X11/extensions/security.h>
<X11/extensions/securstr.h>
The following include files are part of the LBX Extension
library standard.
<X11/extensions/XLbx.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxbuf.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxbufstr.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxdeltastr.h>
<X11/extensions/lbximage.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxopts.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxstr.h>
<X11/extensions/lbxzlib.h>
The following include files are part of the Colormap Uti-
lization Policy and Extention specification.
<X11/extensions/Xcup.h>
<X11/extensions/Xcupstr.h>
The following include files are part of the Extended
Visual Information specification.
<X11/extensions/XEVI.h>
<X11/extensions/XEVIstr.h>
The following include files are part of the X Display Man-
agement Signaling Extension specification.
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<X11/extensions/dpms.h>
<X11/extensions/dpmsstr.h>
NON STANDARDS
The X11R6.4 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 X11R6.4
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 X Locale database; the fonts distributed
with X11R6.4; the applications distributed with X11R6.4;
the include files <X11/XWDFile.h>, <X11/Xfuncproto.h>,
<X11/Xfuncs.h>, <X11/Xosdefs.h>, <X11/Xos.h>,
<X11/Xos_r.h>, <X11/Xwinsock.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 maintained 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 may also be avail-
able 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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