Talk:Xlib

Does anyone know how old the version of the O'Reilly book in http://www.sbin.org/doc/Xlib/ is? It mentions X11R5 but not R6. Mostly, though, I'm just amused with the line from the introduction that says "the X11 subroutine library (Xlib) is expected to be stable for several years and to be at least a de facto industry standard." (Heh, think they consider it to have been "several years" yet?) --Dirk Gently 05:00:42, 2005-08-19 (UTC)

Does anyone know where I can get a *download* for Xlib / X11 / X Window for my Redhat Linux 9. I was looking for a download for last few days ! Here also I couldnt find the information regarding the download. <skhadar@gmail.com> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.54.85.131 (talk • contribs) 13. dec 2005 kl. 07:01

To do

• description on how using Xlib differs from the direct use of the X protocol (which is almost never done)
• functions that are specific to Xlib (resources, contexts)
• images (difference with pixmaps)

Anything else? - Liberatore(T) 19:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Peer review of a related article

I submitted X Window core protocol for peer review, as I intend to candidate it for featured status. I would appreciate comments (Peer review page). - Liberatore(T) 18:05, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

GTK

AFAIK GTK is not build over xlib directly but over GDK which is indeed over xlib —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.34.209.95 (talk • contribs) 27. aug 2006 kl. 16:25

In a quick check, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 uses these Xlib symbols directly:

XChangeProperty XClearArea XExtendedMaxRequestSize XFixesChangeSaveSet XFlush XFree XGetSelectionOwner XGetWMNormalHints XGetWindowAttributes XGetWindowProperty XGrabKey XGrabServer XIGrabKeycode XIUngrabKeycode XInternAtom XKeysymToKeycode XMaxRequestSize XSelectInput XSendEvent XSync XUngrabKey XUngrabServer.

GDK uses far more symbols from Xlib, but GTK does use it directly. TEDickey (talk) 15:46, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

xLib for Texas Instruments Graphics Calculators

Just thought I'd point out that xLib is a graphics library bundled with certain TI calculators. You may want to create a disambiguation page or something. 72.25.192.4 (talk) 04:26, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

appeared around 1985

The oldest source available is X.V10R3, which has almost entirely 1985 copyright dates. In particular, the Xlib portion has only 2 of 163 copyright notices with 1984 and 1985. The other files are copyrighted 1985. Saying "around 1985" is misleading, and replacing that with "circa" is not an improvement. TEDickey (talk) 21:27, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

question about 1985?

In the X.V10R3 sources, all of the copyrights in the X directory (corresponding to this topic) say

/* Copyright    Massachusetts Institute of Technology    1985   */ 

and the README file concludes with

                                        Robert W. Scheifler
                                        MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
                                        August 1985

The newest file in that directory is from February 1986. In the sources, 416 files have a 1985 copyright date, 161 with 1986. It seems that at least one release of X took place during 1985. According to comments [1] and here, it required a licensing agreement with MIT (comment apparently by Jim Fulton, who was an early X developer). TEDickey (talk) 23:27, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Xlib and XCB

Here is an alternate link for the failed verification in paragraph 2:

"Xlib and XCB compatibility was achieved by rebuilding libX11 as a layer on top of libxcb."

https://www.x.org/wiki/guide/xlib-and-xcb/#index2h2 173.245.132.79 (talk) 21:18, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

That's not suitable, since it gives the reader no clue regarding when this happened. I found a suitable source and trimmed the editorialization which detracted from the topic TEDickey (talk) 00:15, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

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promotional term is not part of title

The phrase "Definitive Guides", etc., does not appear on the title or copyright pages of these books. It is merely a promotional term which should not be part of the citation TEDickey (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2023 (UTC)