XStandards

NAME

X Standards - MIT X Consortium Standards

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.

STANDARDS

The following documents are MIT X Consortium standards:

DRAFT STANDARDS

The following documents are currently draft standards of the MIT X Consortium.

INCLUDE FILES

The following include files are part of the Xlib standard.

The following include file is part of the Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension standard.

The following include files are part of the X Input Extension standard.

The following include file is part of the Multi-Buffering draft standard.

NON STANDARDS

The X11R5 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. 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.