The X New Developer’s Guide

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• Cover
• Preface
• X Window System Concepts
  • X Is Client / Server
  • X In Practice
    • Input
    • GetImage: Reading From the Display
    • Output
    • Displays and Screens
    • Graphics contexts
    • Colors (really?) and Visuals
    • Syncing and Flushing connections
    • Window System Objects
    • Grabs
    • Selections, Cut-Copy-Paste
• Communication Between Client and Server
  • X Protocol Security model
  • Authentication methods
  • Access control within the X server
• Modern Extensions To X
  • XKB
  • Xinput 2
  • Composite
  • RandR and Xinerama
  • SYNC
• The X Client Ecosystem
  • The Structure of an X Client Application
  • Building X client code
  • X libraries
    • XCB family of protocol and utility libraries
    • Xlib family of protocol and utility libraries
    • X Toolkit Intrinsics and legacy toolkits
    • Libraries for related protocols
    • Utility libraries
• Xlib and XCB
  • Example: Converting xwininfo from Xlib to XCB
  • Mixing Xlib & XCB calls
  • Example: Converting xdpyinfo extension queries to XCB
  • Extension libraries
  • API documentation
• Using Extensions
  • Example: Using an extension from an xcb-based client
  • Example: Using an extension from an Xlib-based client
• The X Keyboard Extension
  • RMLVO and Kccgst
    • RMLVO
    • Kccgst
  • Converting from RMLVO to Kccgst
  • Key processing
• Fonts
  • Core Font subsystem
  • Client-side fonts
• Debugging Client-Server Interactions
  • Event reporting
  • The X-Resource extension
  • Protocol monitors
  • System level tracing
• Contributing To X
• Developer Documentation
  • Doxygen
  • Docbook/XML
  • Manual Pages
  • Wiki
  • Conclusions
• Appendix: Other Sources of Information