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XStandards - X Consortium Standards

Synopsis

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 status of various standards, and the software in the X11R6.3 distribution, is explained below.

Standards

The following documents are X Consortium standards: 
X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Robert W. Scheifler
Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.3
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse
Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks
Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Robert W. Scheifler
X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.5
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea
X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Keith Packard
X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Keith Packard
X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
George Sachs, Mark Patrick
X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Mark Patrick, George Sachs
The X Font Service Protocol
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
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 6.3
Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown
Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Ralph Mor
X Session Management Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Mike Wexler
X Session Management Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Ralph Mor
The Input Method Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura
X Synchronization Extension
Version 3.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins
X Image Extension, Protocol Reference Manual
Version 5.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Bob Shelley
XTEST Extension
Version 2.2
Kieron Drake
Big Requests Extension
Version 2.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Bob Scheifler
XC-MISC Extension
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 6.3
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 6.3
Erik Fortune
X Keyboard Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Amber J. Benson, Gary Aitken, Erik Fortune, Donna Converse,
George Sachs, and Will Walker
X Print Extension Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.3
X Print Extension Library
X Version 11, Release 6.3
X Application Group Extension Protocol and Library
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Kaleb Keithley
X Security Extension Protocol and Library
Version 4.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Dave Wiggins
X Proxy Manager Protocol
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Ralph Swick
LBX Extension Protocol and Library
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Keith Packard, Dave Lemke, Donna Converse, Ralph Mor, Ray Tice
Remote Execution MIME Type
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 6.3
Arnaud Le Hors

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
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 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 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 Extension Library standard. 


 some subset of...
<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 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. 


 some subset of...
<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>

Non Standards

The X11R6.3 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 X11R6.3 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 X Locale database; the fonts distributed with X11R6.3; the applications distributed with X11R6.3; 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 available 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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