XSTANDARDS(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual XSTANDARDS(7)
NAME
XStandards - X Window System Standards and Specifications
DESCRIPTION
The major goal of the X Consortium was to promote cooperation within the
computer industry in the creation of standard software interfaces at all
layers in the X Window System environment. The X Consortium produced
standards - documents which defined network protocols, programming in-
terfaces, and other aspects of the X environment. These standards con-
tinue to exist in the X.Org Foundation releases. The X.Org Foundation
also produces specifications. Like X Window System 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 Window System standards, X.Org Foundation 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
X11R7.0 distribution, is explained below.
STANDARDS
The following documents are X Window System standards:
X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Robert W. Scheifler
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 7.0
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse
Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks
Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Robert W. Scheifler
X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.5
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea
X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Keith Packard
X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0.1
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Keith Packard
X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
George Sachs, Mark Patrick
X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Mark Patrick, George Sachs
The X Font Service Protocol
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Jim Fulton
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Ralph Mor
X Session Management Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Mike Wexler
X Session Management Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Ralph Mor
The Input Method Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura
X Synchronization Extension
Version 3.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins
XTEST Extension
Version 2.2
Kieron Drake
Big Requests Extension
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Bob Scheifler
XC-MISC Extension
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 7.0
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 7.0
Erik Fortune
X Keyboard Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Amber J. Benson, Gary Aitken, Erik Fortune, Donna Converse,
George Sachs, and Will Walker
X Print Extension Protocol
X Version 11, Release 7.0
X Print Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 7.0
X Application Group Extension Protocol and Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Kaleb Keithley
X Security Extension Protocol and Library
Version 4.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Dave Wiggins
X Proxy Manager Protocol
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Ralph Swick
LBX Extension Protocol and Library
X Version 11, Release 7.0
Keith Packard, Dave Lemke, Donna Converse, Ralph Mor, Ray Tice
Remote Execution MIME Type
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 7.0
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
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 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 file is part of the XTEST standard.
<X11/extensions/XTest.h>
The following include file is part of the Double Buffer Extension stan-
dard.
<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>
<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 Extension Library
standard.
<X11/extensions/Print.h>
<X11/extensions/Printstr.h>
The following include files are part of the X Application Group Exten-
sion 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 stan-
dard.
<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 Utilization Policy
and Extension 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 Management Signal-
ing Extension specification.
<X11/extensions/dpms.h>
<X11/extensions/dpmsstr.h>
NON STANDARDS
The X11R7.0 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 Window System standards are the ones listed above. No other
documents, include files, or software in X11R7.0 carry special status
within the X Window System. For example, none of the following are
standards: internal interfaces of the sample server; the MIT-SHM exten-
sion; the Athena Widget Set; the Xmu library; the Xau library; the RGB
database; the X Locale database; the fonts distributed with X11R7.0; the
applications distributed with X11R7.0; the include files <X11/XWD-
File.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.Org Foundation 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 Window System software re-
lease. The latest version may also be found at
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/registry
The X Registry and the names in it are not X Window System standards.
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