Xlib
Sign in to saveAlso 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
- , documentation:
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- 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.