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Xlib
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Also known as libX11

thumb|X11-clients use xlib to communicate with the display server.

Key facts

Software.name
Xlib
Software.title
Xlib
Software.developer
X.Org Foundation
Software.released
September 1985
Software.programming language
C
Software.genre
Library
Software.website
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Data types
  • Protocol and events
  • Functions
  • Example
  • Other libraries
  • References
  • External links

thumb|X11-clients use xlib to communicate with the display server.

Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language. It contains functions for interacting with an X server. These functions allow programmers to write programs without knowing the details of the X protocol.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xlib” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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