Talk:X Window System protocols and architecture

Urgently needed for this article

X Window System was at 30KB and it was clear the technical section would need at least 15KB to do it justice, and was also of notably lower quality than the rest of the article. So I split it off. - David Gerard 13:13, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Things this article needs (add to this list):

Fonts (bitmap and the scalable extension)
Extensions (how they work)
More protocol details (what's missing: grabs, keyboard, ...?)
basically, the three Scheifler/Gettys books condensed into a single article ;-)
inter-client communication conventions (ICCCM and others): what's missing?
resource management
authorization

I have added some technical details, but there are some points missing: for example, a discussion about screens and visuals. In the examples, I made some simplifying assumptions (for example, in the the example section I have assumed a single screen; when talking about selections, I have assumed that the client is requesting a text selection, etc.) This may be misleading, but explaining everything in the level of details of the specifications is too much. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 09:25, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

keyboard input with XKB

It needs some information on how the keyboard input in X works. At the web I found The X Keyboard Extension: Protocol Speciﬁcation. --Hhielscher 01:10, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Split (again)

This article has reached 33k... I propose to split the sections:

X protocol

X services

Objects

Example

Xlib

into a new article X Window protocol, leaving a summary here. The section "Inter-client communication" is also quite long, but I think it can be left in place. Comments? - Liberatore(T) 20:46, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]