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<glossary id='glossary'>
<title>Glossary</title>


<glossentry id="glossary:Access_control_list">
  <glossterm>Access control list</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Access_control_list" significance="preferred"><primary>Access control list</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
X maintains a list of hosts from which client programs can be run.
By default,
only programs on the local host and hosts specified in an initial list read
by the server can use the display.
Clients on the local host can change this access control list.
Some server implementations can also implement other authorization mechanisms
in addition to or in place of this mechanism.
The action of this mechanism can be conditional based on the authorization
protocol name and data received by the server at connection setup.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Active_grab">
  <glossterm>Active grab</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Active_grab" significance="preferred"><primary>Active grab</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A grab is active when the pointer or keyboard is actually owned by
the single grabbing client.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Ancestors">
  <glossterm>Ancestors</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Ancestors" significance="preferred"><primary>Ancestors</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
If W is an <glossterm linkend="glossary:Inferiors">inferior</glossterm> of A, then A is an ancestor of W.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Atom">
  <glossterm>Atom</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Atom" significance="preferred"><primary>Atom</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An atom is a unique ID corresponding to a string name.
Atoms are used to identify properties, types, and selections.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Background">
  <glossterm>Background</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Background" significance="preferred"><primary>Background</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An
<glossterm linkend="glossary:InputOutput_window"><emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis></glossterm>
window can have a background, which is defined as a pixmap.
When regions of the window have their contents lost or invalidated,
the server will automatically tile those regions with the background.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Backing_store">
  <glossterm>Backing store</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Backing_store" significance="preferred"><primary>Backing store</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
When a server maintains the contents of a window,
the pixels saved off screen are known as a backing store.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Bit_gravity">
  <glossterm>Bit gravity</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Bit_gravity" significance="preferred"><primary>Bit</primary><secondary>gravity</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
When a window is resized,
the contents of the window are not necessarily discarded.
It is possible to request that the server relocate the previous contents
to some region of the window (though no guarantees are made).
This attraction of window contents for some location of
a window is known as bit gravity.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Bit_plane">
  <glossterm>Bit plane</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Bit_plane" significance="preferred"><primary>Bit</primary><secondary>plane</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
When a pixmap or window is thought of as a stack of bitmaps,
each bitmap is called a bit plane or plane.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Bitmap">
  <glossterm>Bitmap</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Bitmap" significance="preferred"><primary>Bitmap</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A bitmap is a <glossterm linkend="glossary:Pixmap">pixmap</glossterm> of depth one.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Border">
  <glossterm>Border</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Border" significance="preferred"><primary>Border</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An
<glossterm linkend="glossary:InputOutput_window"><emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis></glossterm>
window can have a border of equal thickness on all four sides of the window.
A pixmap defines the contents of the border,
and the server automatically maintains the contents of the border.
Exposure events are never generated for border regions.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Button_grabbing">
  <glossterm>Button grabbing</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Button_grabbing" significance="preferred"><primary>Button</primary><secondary>grabbing</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Buttons on the pointer may be passively grabbed by a client.
When the button is pressed,
the pointer is then actively grabbed by the client.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Byte_order">
  <glossterm>Byte order</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Byte_order" significance="preferred"><primary>Byte order</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
For image (pixmap/bitmap) data,
the server defines the byte order,
and clients with different native byte ordering must swap bytes as necessary.
For all other parts of the protocol,
the client defines the byte order,
and the server swaps bytes as necessary.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Children">
  <glossterm>Children</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Children" significance="preferred"><primary>Children</primary></indexterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Children" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>children</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The children of a window are its first-level subwindows.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Client">
  <glossterm>Client</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Client" significance="preferred"><primary>Client</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An application program connects to the window system server by some
interprocess communication path, such as a TCP connection or a
shared memory buffer.
This program is referred to as a client of the window system server.
More precisely,
the client is the communication path itself;
a program with multiple paths open to the server is viewed as
multiple clients by the protocol.
Resource lifetimes are controlled by connection lifetimes,
not by program lifetimes.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Clipping_region">
  <glossterm>Clipping region</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Clipping_region" significance="preferred"><primary>Clipping region</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
In a <glossterm linkend="glossary:Graphics_context">graphics context</glossterm>,
a bitmap or list of rectangles can be specified
to restrict output to a particular region of the window.
The image defined by the bitmap or rectangles is called a clipping region.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Colormap">
  <glossterm>Colormap</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Colormap" significance="preferred"><primary>Colormap</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A colormap consists of a set of entries defining color values.
The colormap associated with a window is used to display the contents of
the window; each pixel value indexes the colormap to produce RGB values
that drive the guns of a monitor.
Depending on hardware limitations,
one or more colormaps may be installed at one time,
so that windows associated with those maps display with correct colors.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Connection">
  <glossterm>Connection</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Connection" significance="preferred"><primary>Connection</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The interprocess communication path between the server and client
program is known as a connection.
A client program typically (but not necessarily) has one
connection to the server over which requests and events are sent.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Containment">
  <glossterm>Containment</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Containment" significance="preferred"><primary>Containment</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A window <quote>contains</quote> the pointer if the window is viewable and the
<glossterm linkend="glossary:Hotspot">hotspot</glossterm> of the cursor is
within a visible region of the window or a
visible region of one of its inferiors.
The border of the window is included as part of the window for containment.
The pointer is <quote>in</quote> a window if the window contains the pointer
but no inferior contains the pointer.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Coordinate_system">
  <glossterm>Coordinate system</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Coordinate_system" significance="preferred"><primary>Coordinate system</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The coordinate system has the X axis horizontal and the Y axis vertical,
with the origin [0, 0] at the upper left.
Coordinates are integral,
in terms of pixels,
and coincide with pixel centers.
Each window and pixmap has its own coordinate system.
For a window,
the origin is inside the border at the inside upper left.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Cursor">
  <glossterm>Cursor</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Cursor" significance="preferred"><primary>Cursor</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A cursor is the visible shape of the pointer on a screen.
It consists of a <glossterm linkend="glossary:Hotspot">hotspot</glossterm>,
a source bitmap, a shape bitmap, and a pair of colors.
The cursor defined for a window controls the visible appearance
when the pointer is in that window.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Depth">
  <glossterm>Depth</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Depth" significance="preferred"><primary>Depth</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The depth of a window or pixmap is the number of bits per pixel that it has.
The depth of a graphics context is the depth of the drawables it can be
used in conjunction with for graphics output.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Device">
  <glossterm>Device</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Device" significance="preferred"><primary>Device</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Keyboards, mice, tablets, track-balls, button boxes, and so on are all
collectively known as input devices.
The core protocol only deals with two devices,
<quote>the keyboard</quote> and <quote>the pointer.</quote>
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:DirectColor">
  <glossterm>DirectColor</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:DirectColor" significance="preferred"><primary>DirectColor</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>DirectColor</emphasis>
is a class of colormap in which a pixel value is decomposed into three
separate subfields for indexing.
The first subfield indexes an array to produce red intensity values.
The second subfield indexes a second array to produce blue intensity values.
The third subfield indexes a third array to produce green intensity values.
The RGB values can be changed dynamically.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Display">
  <glossterm>Display</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Display" significance="preferred"><primary>Display</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A server, together with its screens and input devices, is called a display.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Drawable">
  <glossterm>Drawable</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Drawable" significance="preferred"><primary>Drawable</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Both windows and pixmaps can be used as sources and destinations in
graphics operations.
These windows and pixmaps are collectively known as drawables.
However, an
<glossterm linkend="glossary:InputOnly_window"><emphasis role='bold'>InputOnly</emphasis></glossterm>
window cannot be used as a source or destination in a graphics operation.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Event">
  <glossterm>Event</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Event" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Clients are informed of information asynchronously by means of events.
These events can be generated either asynchronously from devices
or as side effects of client requests.
Events are grouped into types.
The server never sends events to a client unless the
client has specificially asked to be informed of that type of event.
However, other clients can force events to be sent to other clients.
Events are typically reported relative to a window.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Event_mask">
  <glossterm>Event mask</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Event_mask" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary><secondary>mask</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Events are requested relative to a window.
The set of event types that a client requests relative to a window
is described by using an event mask.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Event_synchronization">
  <glossterm>Event synchronization</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Event_synchronization" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary><secondary>synchronization</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
There are certain race conditions possible when demultiplexing device
events to clients (in particular deciding where pointer and keyboard
events should be sent when in the middle of window management
operations).
The event synchronization mechanism allows synchronous processing
of device events.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Event_propagation">
  <glossterm>Event propagation</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Event_propagation" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary><secondary>propagation</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Device-related events propagate from the source window to ancestor
windows until some client has expressed interest in handling that type
of event or until the event is discarded explicitly.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Event_source">
  <glossterm>Event source</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Event_source" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary><secondary>source</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The window the pointer is in is the source of a device-related
event.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Exposure_event">
  <glossterm>Exposure event</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Exposure_event" significance="preferred"><primary>Event</primary><secondary>Exposure</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Servers do not guarantee to preserve the contents of windows when
windows are obscured or reconfigured.
Exposure events are sent to clients to inform them when contents
of regions of windows have been lost.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Extension">
  <glossterm>Extension</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Extension" significance="preferred"><primary>Extension</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Named extensions to the core protocol can be defined to extend the
system.
Extension to output requests, resources, and event types are
all possible and are expected.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Focus_window">
  <glossterm>Focus window</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Focus_window" significance="preferred"><primary>Focus window</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The focus window is another term for the <glossterm linkend="glossary:Input_focus">input focus</glossterm>.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Font">
  <glossterm>Font</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Font" significance="preferred"><primary>Font</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A font is a matrix of glyphs (typically characters).
The protocol does no translation or interpretation of character sets.
The client simply indicates values used to index the glyph array.
A font contains additional metric information to determine interglyph
and interline spacing.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:GC">
  <glossterm>GC, GContext</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:GC" significance="preferred"><primary>GC</primary><seealso>Graphics context</seealso></indexterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:GC" significance="preferred"><primary>GContext</primary><seealso>Graphics context</seealso></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
GC and gcontext are abbreviations for <glossterm linkend="glossary:Graphics_context">graphics context</glossterm>.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Glyph">
  <glossterm>Glyph</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Glyph" significance="preferred"><primary>Glyph</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A glyph is an image, typically of a character, in a font.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Grab">
  <glossterm>Grab</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Grab" significance="preferred"><primary>Grab</primary><seealso>Active grab</seealso><seealso>Passive grab</seealso></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Keyboard keys, the keyboard, pointer buttons, the pointer, and the
server can be grabbed for exclusive use by a client.
In general,
these facilities are not intended to be used by normal applications
but are intended for various input and window managers to implement
various styles of user interfaces.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Graphics_context">
  <glossterm>Graphics context</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Graphics_context" significance="preferred"><primary>Graphics context</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Various information for graphics output is stored in a graphics context
such as foreground pixel, background pixel, line width,
<glossterm linkend="glossary:Clipping_region">clipping region</glossterm>,
and so on.
A graphics context can only be used with drawables that have the same root
and the same depth as the graphics context.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Gravity">
  <glossterm>Gravity</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Gravity" significance="preferred"><primary>Gravity</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
See <glossterm linkend="glossary:Bit_gravity">bit gravity</glossterm>
and <glossterm linkend="glossary:Window_gravity">window gravity</glossterm>.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:GrayScale">
  <glossterm>GrayScale</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:GrayScale" significance="preferred"><primary>GrayScale</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>GrayScale</emphasis>
can be viewed as a degenerate case of
<glossterm linkend="glossary:PseudoColor"><emphasis role='bold'>PseudoColor</emphasis></glossterm>,
in which the red, green, and blue values in any given colormap entry are equal,
thus producing shades of gray.
The gray values can be changed dynamically.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Hotspot">
  <glossterm>Hotspot</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Hotspot" significance="preferred"><primary>Hotspot</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A cursor has an associated hotspot that defines the point in the
cursor corresponding to the coordinates reported for the pointer.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Identifier">
  <glossterm>Identifier</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Identifier" significance="preferred"><primary>Identifier</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An identifier is a unique value associated with a resource that clients use
to name that resource.
The identifier can be used over any connection.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Inferiors">
  <glossterm>Inferiors</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Inferiors" significance="preferred"><primary>Inferiors</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The inferiors of a window are all of the subwindows nested below it:
the children, the children's children, and so on.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Input_focus">
  <glossterm>Input focus</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Input_focus" significance="preferred"><primary>Input focus</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The input focus is normally a window defining the scope for
processing of keyboard input.
If a generated keyboard event would normally be reported to this window
or one of its inferiors,
the event is reported normally.
Otherwise, the event is reported with respect to
the focus window.
The input focus also can be set such that all
keyboard events are discarded and such that the focus
window is dynamically taken to be the root window of whatever screen
the pointer is on at each keyboard event.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Input_manager">
  <glossterm>Input manager</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Input_manager" significance="preferred"><primary>Input manager</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Control over keyboard input is typically provided by an input manager client.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:InputOnly_window">
  <glossterm>InputOnly window</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:InputOnly_window" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>InputOnly</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOnly</emphasis>
window is a window that cannot be used for graphics requests.
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOnly</emphasis>
windows are invisible and can be used to control such things
as cursors, input event generation, and grabbing.
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOnly</emphasis>
windows cannot have
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis>
windows as inferiors.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:InputOutput_window">
  <glossterm>InputOutput window</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:InputOutput_window" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>InputOutput</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis>
window is the normal kind of opaque window, used for both input and output.
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis>
windows can have both
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis>
and
<emphasis role='bold'>InputOnly</emphasis>
windows as inferiors.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Key_grabbing">
  <glossterm>Key grabbing</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Key_grabbing" significance="preferred"><primary>Key</primary><secondary>grabbing</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Keys on the keyboard can be passively grabbed by a client.
When the key is pressed,
the keyboard is then actively grabbed by the client.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Keyboard_grabbing">
  <glossterm>Keyboard grabbing</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Keyboard_grabbing" significance="preferred"><primary>Keyboard</primary><secondary>grabbing</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A client can actively grab control of the keyboard, and key events
will be sent to that client rather than the client the events would
normally have been sent to.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Keysym">
  <glossterm>Keysym</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Keysym" significance="preferred"><primary>Keysym</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An encoding of a symbol on a keycap on a keyboard.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Mapped">
  <glossterm>Mapped</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Mapped" significance="preferred"><primary>Mapped window</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A window is said to be mapped if a map call has been performed on it.
Unmapped windows and their inferiors are never viewable or visible.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Modifier_keys">
  <glossterm>Modifier keys</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Modifier_keys" significance="preferred"><primary>Modifier keys</primary></indexterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Modifier_keys"><primary>Key</primary><secondary>modifier</secondary><see>Modifier keys</see></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Shift, Control, Meta, Super, Hyper, Alt, Compose, Apple, CapsLock,
ShiftLock, and similar keys are called modifier keys.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Monochrome">
  <glossterm>Monochrome</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Monochrome" significance="preferred"><primary>Monochrome</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Monochrome is a special case of
<glossterm linkend="glossary:StaticGray"><emphasis role='bold'>StaticGray</emphasis></glossterm>
in which there are only two colormap entries.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Obscure">
  <glossterm>Obscure</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Obscure" significance="preferred"><primary>Obscure</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A window is obscured if some other window obscures it.
Window A obscures window B if both are viewable
<glossterm linkend="glossary:InputOutput_window"><emphasis role='bold'>InputOutput</emphasis></glossterm>
windows, A is higher in the global stacking order,
and the rectangle defined by the outside edges of A intersects
the rectangle defined by the outside edges of B.
Note the distinction between obscure and occludes.
Also note that window borders are included in the calculation
and that a window can be obscured and yet still have visible regions.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Occlude">
  <glossterm>Occlude</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Occlude" significance="preferred"><primary>Occlude</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A window is occluded if some other window occludes it.
Window A occludes window B if both are mapped, A is higher in the global
stacking order, and the rectangle defined by the outside edges of A
intersects the rectangle defined by the outside edges of B.
Note the distinction between occludes and obscures.
Also note that window borders are included in the calculation.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Padding">
  <glossterm>Padding</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Padding" significance="preferred"><primary>Padding</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Some padding bytes are inserted in the data stream to maintain
alignment of the protocol requests on natural boundaries.
This increases ease of portability to some machine architectures.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Parent_window">
  <glossterm>Parent window</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Parent_window" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>parent</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
If C is a <glossterm linkend="glossary:Children">child</glossterm> of P,
then P is the parent of C.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Passive_grab">
  <glossterm>Passive grab</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Passive_grab" significance="preferred"><primary>Passive grab</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Grabbing a key or button is a passive grab.
The grab activates when the key or button is actually pressed.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Pixel_value">
  <glossterm>Pixel value</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Pixel_value" significance="preferred"><primary>Pixel value</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A pixel is an N-bit value, where N is the number of bit planes used
in a particular window or pixmap (that is,
N is the depth of the window or pixmap).
For a window,
a pixel value indexes a colormap to derive an actual color to be displayed.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Pixmap">
  <glossterm>Pixmap</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Pixmap" significance="preferred"><primary>Pixmap</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A pixmap is a three-dimensional array of bits.
A pixmap is normally thought of as a two-dimensional array of pixels,
where each pixel can be a value from 0 to (2^N)-1
and where N is the depth (z axis) of the pixmap.
A pixmap can also be thought of as a stack of N bitmaps.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Plane">
  <glossterm>Plane</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Plane" significance="preferred"><primary>Plane</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
When a pixmap or window is thought of as a stack of bitmaps,
each bitmap is called a plane or bit plane.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Plane_mask">
  <glossterm>Plane mask</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Plane_mask" significance="preferred"><primary>Plane</primary><secondary>mask</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Graphics operations can be restricted to only affect a subset of bit
planes of a destination.
A plane mask is a bit mask describing which planes are to be modified.
The plane mask is stored in a graphics context.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Pointer">
  <glossterm>Pointer</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Pointer" significance="preferred"><primary>Pointer</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The pointer is the pointing device attached to the cursor
and tracked on the screens.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Pointer_grabbing">
  <glossterm>Pointer grabbing</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Pointer_grabbing" significance="preferred"><primary>Pointer</primary><secondary>grabbing</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A client can actively grab control of the pointer.
Then button and motion events will be sent to that client
rather than the client the events would normally have been sent to.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Pointing_device">
  <glossterm>Pointing device</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Pointing_device" significance="preferred"><primary>Pointing device</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A pointing device is typically a mouse, tablet, or some other
device with effective dimensional motion.
There is only one visible cursor defined by the core protocol,
and it tracks whatever pointing device is attached as the pointer.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Property">
  <glossterm>Property</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Property" significance="preferred"><primary>Property</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Windows may have associated properties,
which consist of a name, a type, a data format, and some data.
The protocol places no interpretation on properties.
They are intended as a general-purpose naming mechanism for clients.
For example, clients might use properties to share information such as resize
hints, program names, and icon formats with a window manager.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Property_list">
  <glossterm>Property list</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Property_list" significance="preferred"><primary>Property list</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The property list of a window is the list of properties that have
been defined for the window.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:PseudoColor">
  <glossterm>PseudoColor</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:PseudoColor" significance="preferred"><primary>PseudoColor</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>PseudoColor</emphasis>
is a class of colormap in which a pixel value indexes the colormap to
produce independent red, green, and blue values;
that is, the colormap is viewed as an array of triples (RGB values).
The RGB values can be changed dynamically.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Redirecting_control">
  <glossterm>Redirecting control</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Redirecting_control" significance="preferred"><primary>Redirecting control</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Window managers (or client programs) may want to enforce window layout
policy in various ways.
When a client attempts to change the size or position of a window,
the operation may be redirected to a specified client
rather than the operation actually being performed.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Reply">
  <glossterm>Reply</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Reply" significance="preferred"><primary>Reply</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Information requested by a client program is sent back to the client
with a reply.
Both events and replies are multiplexed on the same connection.
Most requests do not generate replies,
although some requests generate multiple replies.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Request">
  <glossterm>Request</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Request" significance="preferred"><primary>Request</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A command to the server is called a request.
It is a single block of data sent over a connection.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Resource">
  <glossterm>Resource</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Resource" significance="preferred"><primary>Resource</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Windows, pixmaps, cursors, fonts, graphics contexts, and colormaps are
known as resources.
They all have unique identifiers associated with them for naming purposes.
The lifetime of a resource usually is bounded by the lifetime of the connection
over which the resource was created.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:RGB_values">
  <glossterm>RGB values</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:RGB_values" significance="preferred"><primary>RGB values</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Red, green, and blue (RGB) intensity values are used to define color.
These values are always represented as 16-bit unsigned numbers,
with 0 being the minimum intensity and 65535 being the maximum intensity.
The server scales the values to match the display hardware.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Root">
  <glossterm>Root</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Root" significance="preferred"><primary>Root</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The root of a pixmap, colormap, or graphics context is the same as the root of
whatever drawable was used when the pixmap, colormap, or graphics context was
created.
The root of a window is the root window under which the window was created.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Root_window">
  <glossterm>Root window</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Root_window" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>root</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Each screen has a root window covering it.
It cannot be reconfigured or unmapped,
but it otherwise acts as a full-fledged window.
A root window has no parent.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Save_set">
  <glossterm>Save set</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Save_set" significance="preferred"><primary>Save set</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The save set of a client is a list of other clients' windows that,
if they are inferiors of one of the client's windows at connection close,
should not be destroyed and that should be remapped if currently unmapped.
Save sets are typically used by window managers to avoid
lost windows if the manager terminates abnormally.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Scanline">
  <glossterm>Scanline</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Scanline" significance="preferred"><primary>Scanline</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A scanline is a list of pixel or bit values viewed as a horizontal
row (all values having the same y coordinate) of an image, with the
values ordered by increasing x coordinate.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Scanline_order">
  <glossterm>Scanline order</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Scanline_order" significance="preferred"><primary>Scanline order</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
An image represented in scanline order contains scanlines ordered by
increasing y coordinate.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Screen">
  <glossterm>Screen</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Screen" significance="preferred"><primary>Screen</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A server can provide several independent screens,
which typically have physically independent monitors.
This would be the expected configuration when there is only a single keyboard
and pointer shared among the screens.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Selection">
  <glossterm>Selection</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Selection" significance="preferred"><primary>Selection</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A selection can be thought of as an indirect property with dynamic
type; that is, rather than having the property stored in the server,
it is maintained by some client (the <quote>owner</quote>).
A selection is global in nature and is thought of as belonging to the user
(although maintained by clients), rather than as being private to a particular
window subhierarchy or a particular set of clients.
When a client asks for the contents of a selection,
it specifies a selection <quote>target type</quote>.
This target type can be used to control the transmitted representation of the
contents.
For example,
if the selection is <quote>the last thing the user clicked on</quote>
and that is currently an image, then the target type might specify
whether the contents of the image should be sent in XY format or Z format.
The target type can also be used to control the class of contents transmitted;
for example, asking for the <quote>looks</quote> (fonts, line
spacing, indentation, and so on) of a paragraph selection rather than the
text of the paragraph.
The target type can also be used for other purposes.
The protocol does not constrain the semantics.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Server">
  <glossterm>Server</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Server" significance="preferred"><primary>Server</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The server provides the basic windowing mechanism.
It handles connections from clients,
multiplexes graphics requests onto the screens,
and demultiplexes input back to the appropriate clients.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Server_grabbing">
  <glossterm>Server grabbing</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Server_grabbing" significance="preferred"><primary>Server</primary><secondary>grabbing</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The server can be grabbed by a single client for exclusive use.
This prevents processing of any requests from other client connections until
the grab is completed.
This is typically only a transient state for
such things as rubber-banding, pop-up menus, or to execute requests
indivisibly.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Sibling">
  <glossterm>Sibling</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Sibling" significance="preferred"><primary>Sibling</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Children of the same parent window are known as sibling windows.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Stacking_order">
  <glossterm>Stacking order</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Stacking_order" significance="preferred"><primary>Stacking order</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Sibling windows may stack on top of each other.
Windows above other windows both obscure and occlude those lower windows.
This is similar to paper on a desk.
The relationship between sibling windows is known as the stacking order.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:StaticColor">
  <glossterm>StaticColor</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:StaticColor" significance="preferred"><primary>StaticColor</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>StaticColor</emphasis>
can be viewed as a degenerate case of
<glossterm linkend="glossary:PseudoColor"><emphasis role='bold'>PseudoColor</emphasis></glossterm>
in which the RGB values are predefined and read-only.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:StaticGray">
  <glossterm>StaticGray</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:StaticGray" significance="preferred"><primary>StaticGray</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>StaticGray</emphasis>
can be viewed as a degenerate case of
<glossterm linkend="glossary:GrayScale"><emphasis role='bold'>GrayScale</emphasis></glossterm>
in which the gray values are predefined and read-only.
The values are typically linear or near-linear increasing ramps.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Stipple">
  <glossterm>Stipple</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Stipple" significance="preferred"><primary>Stipple</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A stipple pattern is a bitmap that is used to tile a region that will serve
as an additional clip mask for a fill operation with the foreground
color.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:String_Equivalence">
  <glossterm>String Equivalence</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:String_Equivalence" significance="preferred"><primary>String Equivalence</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Two ISO Latin-1 STRING8 values are considered equal if they are the same
length and if corresponding bytes are either equal or are equivalent as
follows:  decimal values 65 to 90 inclusive (characters <quote>A</quote> to <quote>Z</quote>) are
pairwise equivalent to decimal values 97 to 122 inclusive
(characters <quote>a</quote> to <quote>z</quote>), decimal values 192 to 214 inclusive
(characters <quote>A grave</quote> to <quote>O diaeresis</quote>) are pairwise equivalent to decimal
values 224 to 246 inclusive (characters <quote>a grave</quote> to <quote>o diaeresis</quote>),
and decimal values 216 to 222 inclusive (characters <quote>O oblique</quote> to <quote>THORN</quote>)
are pairwise equivalent to decimal values 246 to 254 inclusive
(characters <quote>o oblique</quote> to <quote>thorn</quote>).
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Tile">
  <glossterm>Tile</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Tile" significance="preferred"><primary>Tile</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A pixmap can be replicated in two dimensions to tile a region.
The pixmap itself is also known as a tile.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Timestamp">
  <glossterm>Timestamp</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Timestamp" significance="preferred"><primary>Timestamp</primary></indexterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Timestamp" significance="preferred"><primary>CurrentTime</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A timestamp is a time value, expressed in milliseconds.
It typically is the time since the last
server reset.
Timestamp values wrap around (after about 49.7 days).
The server, given its current time is represented by timestamp T,
always interprets timestamps from clients by treating half of the
timestamp space as being earlier in time than T and half of the
timestamp space as being later in time than T.
One timestamp value (named
<emphasis role='bold'>CurrentTime</emphasis>)
is never generated by the server.
This value is reserved for use in requests to represent the current
server time.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:TrueColor">
  <glossterm>TrueColor</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:TrueColor" significance="preferred"><primary>TrueColor</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
<emphasis role='bold'>TrueColor</emphasis>
can be viewed as a degenerate case of
<glossterm linkend="glossary:DirectColor"><emphasis role='bold'>DirectColor</emphasis></glossterm>
in which the subfields in the pixel value directly encode
the corresponding RGB values; that is, the colormap has predefined
read-only RGB values.
The values are typically linear or near-linear increasing ramps.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Type">
  <glossterm>Type</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Type" significance="preferred"><primary>Type</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A type is an arbitrary atom used to identify the interpretation of
property data.
Types are completely uninterpreted by the server
and are solely for the benefit of clients.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Viewable">
  <glossterm>Viewable</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Viewable" significance="preferred"><primary>Viewable</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A window is viewable if it and all of its ancestors are mapped.
This does not imply that any portion of the window is actually visible.
Graphics requests can be performed on a window when it is not viewable,
but output will not be retained unless the server is maintaining
backing store.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Visible">
  <glossterm>Visible</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Visible" significance="preferred"><primary>Visible</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
A region of a window is visible if someone looking at the screen can
actually see it;
that is, the window is viewable and the region is not occluded by any
other window.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Window_gravity">
  <glossterm>Window gravity</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Window_gravity" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>gravity</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
When windows are resized,
subwindows may be repositioned automatically relative to some position
in the window.
This attraction of a subwindow to some part of its parent is known
as window gravity.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:Window_manager">
  <glossterm>Window manager</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:Window_manager" significance="preferred"><primary>Window</primary><secondary>manager</secondary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
Manipulation of windows on the screen and much of the user interface
(policy) is typically provided by a window manager client.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:XYFormat">
  <glossterm>XYFormat</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:XYFormat" significance="preferred"><primary>XYFormat</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The data for a pixmap is said to be in XY format if it is organized as
a set of bitmaps representing individual bit planes, with the planes
appearing from most-significant to least-significant in bit order.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary:ZFormat">
  <glossterm>ZFormat</glossterm>
  <indexterm zone="glossary:ZFormat" significance="preferred"><primary>ZFormat</primary></indexterm>
  <glossdef>
    <para>
The data for a pixmap is said to be in Z format if it is organized as
a set of pixel values in scanline order.
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    </para>
  </glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossary>