XStandards7x
X consortium standards and x project team specifications
Usage
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 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 specifications. 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.
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 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.
<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.
<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 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 Management Signaling Extension specification.
<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 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 X11R6.4; 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 available by sending a message to [email protected]. 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.