What's the meaning of XShape, XFixes, Xrender...etc. X extensions.

danny tornadory at 163.com
Thu Jul 22 20:03:27 PDT 2010


Thanks very much, it's wonderful to see your work finishing.


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 Best Regards,






>Danny,
>  I've been working on rounding up Xorg documentation for several
>months now.  The links I've found for extensions are gathered here:
>http://osource.org/xorg/components.html
>
>It's incomplete but ongoing and may help you.  If you find any more
>good documentation, could you please email the list (cc me).
>
>Matt
>
>On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:37 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/7/22 danny <tornadory at 163.com>:
>>
>>> I  am in a puzzle about the Xshape, XFixes... so many X extensions, are
>>> there some pages to explain those?
>>> I want to know the exact function of these extensions, and the reason they
>>> appear, but after a long google, I find so less material.
>>
>>
>> There is a very incomplete selection on the English language Wikipedia:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:X_Window_extensions
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:X-based_libraries
>>
>> Of course, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a developer's manual! But
>> anything listed there should definitely be documented on the Xorg
>> wiki. (Many as "historical.)
>>
>>
>> - d.
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