X11::P...ANDARD(3pm)

💖 X11::Protocol::Ext::MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about X11::Protocol::Ext::MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD — it's a Perl module, it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your 3pm pages, and it's literally the X11R2/R3 compatibility mode plug-in. vintage. iconic. slightly cursed. let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

X11::Protocol::Ext::MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD — X11R2/R3 compatibility mode 🕰️

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use X11::Protocol;
my $X = X11::Protocol->new;
$X->init_extension('MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD')
  or print "MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD extension not available";

that's it, that's the whole vibe. load it up, init it, and if it doesn't init, print the sad little message. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD extension flips a "bug mode" setting in the server. and no, bestie, that's not a typo — it genuinely is called bug mode, and it's there to help out some ancient X11R2 and X11R3 client programs, including the xterm from those releases. like, the vintage vintage ones. 👑

and what does bug mode actually mean, you ask? let me break it down:

• it relaxes event mask checking in grab pointer and button requests, and in window do-not-propagate attributes — basically so it ignores mask bits that aren't applicable to the situation 🙈
• it does something for non-overlapping sibling window stacking order 🌈
• and it keeps the maximum keycode below 255, which dodges an Xt toolkit segfault 💀

ngl, unless you're out here working with old client programs, these things are unlikely to be of interest to you. like, at all. it's giving museum piece.

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🔥 REQUESTS 🔥

these get made available to you with an init_extension() call, per EXTENSIONS in X11::Protocol ✨

my $bool = $X->init_extension('MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD');

• $X->MitSundryNonstandardSetBugMode ($flag)
• $flag = $X->MitSundryNonstandardGetBugMode ()

get or set the bug mode flag, bestie. 1 means compatibility mode is on, 0 means off. that's the whole toggle. no cap. 🎀

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• X11::Protocol — the main character, obviously 👑
• xset(1) — its bc option controls the bug flag from the command line 🖥️
• Xserver(1) — its bc command-line option sets the flag at server startup 🚀

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🌐 HOME PAGE 🌐

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/x11-protocol-other/index.html>

go peek, it's cute 🧚

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📜 LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 Kevin Ryde

X11-Protocol-Other is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

X11-Protocol-Other is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (yes bestie, that's the legal all-caps moment, we respect it 🫡)

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with X11-Protocol-Other. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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and that's the whole page, babes 💜 this was perl v5.28.1, dated 2019-08-26, and it's out — mwah, slay, stay compatible ✨🎀