


XSTANDARDS(1)                                                   XSTANDARDS(1)



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:

  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

DRAFT STANDARDS
  The following documents are currently draft standards of the MIT X Consor-
  tium.

  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


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 file is part of the Multi-Buffering draft standard.

  <X11/extensions/multibuf.h>


NON STANDARDS
  The X11R5 distribution contains _s_a_m_p_l_e implementations, not _r_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e
  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 distri-
  buted 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>.










































