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Package: libxext6

Description: X11 miscellaneous extension library
libXext provides an X Window System client interface to several extensions to the X protocol.
The supported protocol extensions are:
 - DOUBLE-BUFFER (DBE), the Double Buffer extension;
 - DPMS, the VESA Display Power Management System extension;
 - Extended-Visual-Information (EVI), an extension for gathering extra
 information about the X server's visuals;
 - LBX, the Low Bandwidth X extension;
 - MIT-SHM, the MIT X client/server shared memory extension;
 - MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, a miscellaneous extension by MIT;
 - Multi-Buffering, the multi-buffering and stereo display extension;
 - SECURITY, the X security extension;
 - SHAPE, the non-rectangular shaped window extension;
 - SYNC, the X synchronization extension;
 - TOG-CUP, the Open Group's Colormap Utilization extension;
 - XC-APPGROUP, the X Consortium's Application Group extension;
 - XC-MISC, the X Consortium's resource ID querying extension;
 - XTEST, the X test extension (this is one of two client-side
 implementations; the other is in the libXtst library, provided by the
 libxtst6 package);
libXext also provides a small set of utility functions to aid authors of client APIs for X protocol extensions.
More information about X.Org can be found at: <URL:http://www.X.org>
This module can be found at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXext
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