Directory of X11 Resources

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The X Window System (X11, X) is a windowing system which provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting with a mouse and keyboard.

Subcategories

• Applications
• Servers
• Toolkits
• Vendors
• Window Managers

Resources in This Category

• Freedesktop.org

  http://freedesktop.org/
  A free software project to work on interoperability and shared technology for desktop environments for the X Window System.

• Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM)

  http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
  Atoms, selections, cut buffers, window manager communication, session management, sharing resources, colors.

• Keith Packard - Papers and Talks

  http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/
  X Window related papers and talks.

• New Rendering Model for X

  http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/freenix/full_papers/packardrender/packardrender.pdf
  By Keith Packard. Article on current limits and future development of X Windows.

• Open Group Desktop Technologies (X.Org)

  http://www.x.org/
  Official distribution of X11.

• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
  All you need to know to use Unicode/UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.

• X on TV

  http://www.sput.nl/hardware/tv-x.html
  How to set up XFree86 for a TV.

• X Window System and Motif WWW Sites

  http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.framed.html
  List of over 600 technically-oriented X Window sites: X Consortium, Motif, X Advisor magazine, major X technologies, CDE, internationalization, FAQs, on-line technical papers, on-line tutorials, X for PCs and Linux, and general human-computer interaction.

• XFree86

  http://www.xfree86.org/
  X implementation for Intel x86-based platforms.

• Xprint

  http://xprint.mozdev.org/
  A X11-based print system and API which enables X11 applications to use devices like printers, FAX or create documents in formats like PostScript, PDF, PCL.

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