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 Consortium.
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 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>.