Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language. It contains functions for interacting...
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Event loop (section Xlib event loop)
use multithreading. Very few programs use Xlib directly. In the more common case, GUI toolkits based on Xlib usually support adding events. For example...
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Two such major X libraries exist for X11. The first of these libraries was Xlib, the original C language X11 API, but another C language X library, XCB,...
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server. The use of Xlib has the following effects: Xlib makes the client synchronous with respect to replies and events: the Xlib functions that send...
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editor in the spirit of Xfig (including, e.g., LaTeX support). Tgif - An Xlib-based 2D vector drawing tool very similar to Xfig. Comparison of vector graphics...
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Tgif (pronounced t-g-i-f) is an Xlib-based interactive 2-D drawing tool (using vector graphics) under X11 on Linux and most UNIX platforms (including Mac...
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Most client programs communicate with the server via the Xlib client library. Beside Xlib, the XCB library operates more closely to X protocol. In particular...
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but differs for certain color names. Color names are not standardized by Xlib or the X11 protocol. The list does not show continuity either in selected...
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Xlib. The X Window System comes with a low-level library called Xlib. Almost every function in GDK is a very thin wrapper around a corresponding Xlib...
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