.\" $Xorg: Standards.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:42:04 cpqbld Exp $ .\" $XdotOrg: xc/doc/man/general/Standards.man,v 1.3 2004/09/03 16:18:18 kem Exp $ .\" Copyright (c) 1993, 1994, 1996, 2004 The Open Group .\" .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the .\" "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including .\" without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, .\" distribute, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons .\" to whom the Software is furnished to do so, provided that the above .\" copyright notice(s) and this permission notice appear in all copies of .\" the Software and that both the above copyright notice(s) and this .\" permission notice appear in supporting documentation. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS .\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT .\" OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR .\" HOLDERS INCLUDED IN THIS NOTICE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY SPECIAL .\" INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING .\" FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, .\" NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION .\" WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder .\" shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use .\" or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization .\" of the copyright holder. .\" .\" X Window System is a trademark of The Open Group. .\" .TH XSTANDARDS __miscmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ .SH NAME XStandards \- X Window System Standards and Specifications .SH SYNOPSIS 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 X.Org Foundation releases. The X.Org Foundation also produces specifications. Like X Window System 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 Window System standards, X.Org Foundation specifications, and other specifications are the basis for portions of The Open Group's various CAE specifications. .PP The status of various standards, specifications, and the software in the X11R7.0 distribution, is explained below. .SH STANDARDS The following documents are X Window System standards: .nf X Window System Protocol X Version 11, Release 7.0 Robert W. Scheifler Xlib \- C Language X Interface X Version 11, Release 7.0 James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman X Toolkit Intrinsics \- C Language Interface X Version 11, Release 7.0 Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick, Donna Converse Bitmap Distribution Format Version 2.1 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual Version 2.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 David Rosenthal, Stuart W. Marks Compound Text Encoding Version 1.1 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Robert W. Scheifler X Logical Font Description Conventions Version 1.5 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Jim Flowers, Stephen Gildea X Display Manager Control Protocol Version 1.1 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Keith Packard X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension Version 1.0.1 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Keith Packard X11 Input Extension Protocol Specification Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 George Sachs, Mark Patrick X11 Input Extension Library Specification X Version 11, Release 7.0 Mark Patrick, George Sachs The X Font Service Protocol Version 2.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Jim Fulton Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Protocol Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Robert Scheifler, Jordan Brown Inter-Client Exchange (ICE) Library Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Ralph Mor X Session Management Protocol Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Mike Wexler X Session Management Library Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Ralph Mor The Input Method Protocol Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Masahiko Narita, Hideki Hiura X Synchronization Extension Version 3.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Tim Glauert, Dave Carver, Jim Gettys, David P. Wiggins XTEST Extension Version 2.2 Kieron Drake Big Requests Extension Version 2.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Bob Scheifler XC-MISC Extension Version 1.1 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Bob Scheifler, Dave Wiggins Double Buffer Extension Version 1.0 Ian Elliott, David P. Wiggins Record Extension Protocol Version 1.13 Martha Zimet, Stephen Gildea Record Extension Library Version 1.13 Martha Zimet, Stephen Gildea X Keyboard Extension Protocol X Version 11, Release 7.0 Erik Fortune X Keyboard Extension Library X Version 11, Release 7.0 Amber J. Benson, Gary Aitken, Erik Fortune, Donna Converse, George Sachs, and Will Walker X Print Extension Protocol X Version 11, Release 7.0 X Print Extension Library X Version 11, Release 7.0 X Application Group Extension Protocol and Library Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Kaleb Keithley X Security Extension Protocol and Library Version 4.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Dave Wiggins X Proxy Manager Protocol X Version 11, Release 7.0 Ralph Swick LBX Extension Protocol and Library X Version 11, Release 7.0 Keith Packard, Dave Lemke, Donna Converse, Ralph Mor, Ray Tice Remote Execution MIME Type Version 1.0 X Version 11, Release 7.0 Arnaud Le Hors .fi .SH SPECIFICATIONS The following documents are X Project Team specifications: .nf 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 .SH "INCLUDE FILES" The following include files are part of the Xlib standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Toolkit Intrinsics standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include file is part of the Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Input Extension standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the ICElib standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the SMlib standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include file is part of the Synchronization standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include file is part of the XTEST standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include file is part of the Double Buffer Extension standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include file is part of the Record Library standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Keyboard Extension Library standard. .PP .nf \" some subset of... .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Print Extension Library standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Application Group Extension Library standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Security Extension Library standard. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the LBX Extension library standard. .PP .nf \" some subset of... .fi .PP The following include files are part of the Colormap Utilization Policy and Extension specification. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the Extended Visual Information specification. .PP .nf .fi .PP The following include files are part of the X Display Management Signaling Extension specification. .PP .nf .fi .SH "NON STANDARDS" The X11R7.0 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 The only X Window System standards are the ones listed above. No other documents, include files, or software in X11R7.0 carry special status within the X Window System. 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 X11R7.0; the applications distributed with X11R7.0; the include files , , , , , , , and ; the bitmap files in . .PP The Multi-Buffering extension was a draft standard of the X Consortium but has been superseded by DBE as a standard. .SH "X REGISTRY" The X.Org Foundation maintains a registry of certain X-related items, to aid in avoiding conflicts and to aid in sharing of such items. .PP The registry is published as part of the X Window System software release. The latest version may also be found at .nf ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/DOCS/registry .fi The X Registry and the names in it are not X Window System standards.