RFC 1198

FYI on the X window system

📅 published January 1991, from ietf

RFC 1198: FYI on the X Window System 🦋

okay so bestie, this is an FYI doc (FYI 6, if we're being formal 💅), written by B. Scheifler from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, dated January 1991. It's informational 🧚, not a standard, so nothing in here is a rule you have to follow. It's basically a pinned list of where to find the X Window System standards. It doesn't obsolete or update anything, and it isn't updating any other RFC either 🎀.

Status of this Memo ✨

okay so this FYI RFC is basically a directory 📚. It points you to the published standards of the MIT X Consortium. It gives info to the Internet community, and it does not specify any Internet standard 🙅‍♀️. Distribution is unlimited, so share it with everyone 💖.

The following documents are standards of the MIT X Consortium 👑:

  • X Window System Protocol, X Version 11, Release 4, by Robert W. Scheifler
  • Xlib - C Language X Interface, X Version 11, Release 4, by James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman
  • X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface, X Version 11, Release 4, by Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick
  • Bitmap Distribution Format, Version 2.1
  • Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual, Version 1.0, by David S. H. Rosenthal
  • Compound Text Encoding, Version 1.1, by Robert W. Scheifler
  • X Logical Font Description Conventions, Version 1.3, by Jim Flowers
  • X Display Manager Control Protocol, Version 1.0, by Keith Packard
  • X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension, Version 1.0, by Keith Packard

The following documents are draft standards of the MIT X Consortium 🧪. To graduate into full standards they need more "proof of concept" in the form of working implementations 🔥. The specs might still get incompatible changes if implementers run into significant problems, so keep that in mind 🙈.

  • PEX Protocol Specification, Version 4.0P, by Randi J. Rost (editor)
  • Extending X for Double-Buffering, Multi-Buffering, and Stereo, Version 3.2, by Jeffrey Friedberg, Larry Seiler, Jeff Vroom

Standards and draft standards of the MIT X Consortium are usually bundled in the MIT X software distribution 🌈. You can usually grab it through anonymous FTP from a bunch of hosts around the world 🌸. For questions about FTP sites for the current release, email xrequest@expo.lcs.mit.edu 💌. You can also order it on tape from MIT for a nominal charge, and here's who to contact 📮:

MIT Software Distribution Center
Technology Licensing Office
Room E32-300
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02139
Phone: (617) 258-8330

You can reach the MIT X Consortium by writing to the Director 🫶:

Bob Scheifler
MIT X Consortium
Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139
EMail: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu

Security Considerations 🔒

Security issues are not discussed in this memo 🙈. Nothing to see here, bestie.

Author's Address 💜

Bob Scheifler
MIT X Consortium
Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: (617) 253-0628

EMail: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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