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.SH NAME
X Standards
.SH SYNOPSIS
The major goal of the MIT X Consortium is 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 X11R5 distribution is explained below.
.SH STANDARDS
The following documents are MIT X Consortium standards:
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X Window System Protocol
X Version 11, Release 5
Robert W. Scheifler

Xlib - C Language X Interface
X Version 11, Release 5
James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman

X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
X Version 11, Release 5
Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick

Bitmap Distribution Format
Version 2.1
X Version 11, Release 5

Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 5
David Rosenthal

Compound Text Encoding
Version 1.1
X Version 11, Release 5
Robert W. Scheifler

X Logical Font Description Conventions
Version 1.4
X Version 11, Release 5
Jim Flowers

X Display Manager Control Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 5
Keith Packard

X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 5
Keith Packard

X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 5
George Sachs, Mark Patrick

X11 Input Extension Library Specification
X Version 11, Release 5
Mark Patrick, George Sachs

The X Font Service Protocol
Version 1.0
X Version 11, Release 5
Jim Fulton
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.SH "DRAFT STANDARDS"
The following documents are currently draft standards of the MIT X Consortium.
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PEX Protocol Specification
Version 5.0P
Sally Barry (editor)

Extending X for Double-Buffering, Multi-Buffering, and Stereo
Version 3.2
Jeffrey Friedberg, Larry Seiler, Jeff Vroom
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.SH "INCLUDE FILES"
The following include files are part of the Xlib standard.
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<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>
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.PP
The following include files are part of the X Input Extension standard.
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<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>
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.PP
The following include file is part of the
Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension standard.
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<X11/extensions/shape.h>
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.PP
The following include files are part of the X Input Extension standard.
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<X11/extensions/XI.h>
<X11/extensions/XInput.h>
<X11/extensions/XIproto.h>
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.PP
The following include file is part of the Multi-Buffering draft standard.
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<X11/extensions/multibuf.h>
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.SH "NON STANDARDS"
The X11R5 distribution contains \fIsample\fP implementations, not
\fIreference\fP 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.
.PP
At the public release of X11R5, the only MIT X Consortium standards are
the ones listed above.
No other documents, include files, or software in X11R5 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 Input Synthesis extension;
the Athena Widget Set;
the Xmu library;
the Xau library;
CLX, the Common Lisp interface to X;
the RGB database;
the fonts distributed with X11R5;
the applications distributed with X11R5;
the include files <X11/XWDFile.h>, <X11/Xfuncproto.h>, <X11/Xfuncs.h>,
<X11/Xosdefs.h>, and <X11/Xos.h>;
the bitmap files in <X11/bitmaps>.