XRender / XComposite Documentation

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Oct 30 15:30:06 UTC 2018


On 10/30/18 07:58 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> On 10/30/2018 10:35 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2018-10-30 at 02:06 -0700, xorg at pengaru.com wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 04:04:08PM -0400, Patrick Herbst wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm desperately trying to find documentation on these extensions.  Can
>>>> someone point me in the right direction?  Am I missing something?  Any
>>>> pointers?
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/libXrender/libXrender.txt
>>> https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/renderproto/renderproto.txt
>>> https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/compositeproto/compositeproto.txt
>>
>> Those are a bit dated. The current versions can be found in gitlab:
>>
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxrender/blob/master/doc/libXrender.txt
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/blob/master/compositeproto.txt 
>>
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/xorgproto/blob/master/renderprotoproto.txt 
>>
>>
>> - ajax
> 
> 
> I don't think your average user will ever find that.
> Best to go to the actual release site :
> 
> https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libXrender/libXrender.txt

But that's 6 years old now, since we stopped doing X11R7.* releases.
Ajax's links are the most up-to-date for people today.

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