Talk:X Window System core protocol

From peer review

I list here the comments from the peer review:

1. organization of headers (ask); why is Extensions at the bottom?
2. overall protocol (diagrams: start/request+reply/event/error)
3. citing of sources and linking

- Liberatore(T) 11:30, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Title

"X Window core protocol" - should the title be "X Window System core protocol"? - David Gerard 13:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

That would be the correct title, indeed. I shortened it a little because it seemed to long to me. We also have some other articles where the name is abbreviated (X window manager instead of X Window System window manager). Anyway, X Window System core protocol is fine to me as well. - Liberatore(T) 14:31, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource

Examples programs:

• User:Paolo Liberatore/Xf1shift.c
• User:Paolo Liberatore/Xf1abcd.c
• User:Paolo Liberatore/Xexample.c

Moved from wikisource (Liberatore, 2006). 17:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Who's first

The connection is established by the client.

Imagine a user (on the server) that wants to start a new program (client). Wouldn't this mean that the connection first must be established by the server? --Abdull 20:26, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi Abdull. How you start a new program is something that depends on the particular configuration you are using, but is not done via the X core protocol. For example, you may start a client in an xterm (which means that the program is launched by the xterm shell) or from a root window menu (which means that the X window manager starts it) or from a ssh shell. Once the client starts, it connects to the server. As an example, to run a program on a different computer using ssh, one would:

• establish a ssh connection from the server to the client computer
• start the program there
• the program connects to the server via the X core protocol

In short, it is the X core protocol connection that is started by the client. Launching the client is not something included in the X core protocol. Tizio 11:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Tizio - your answer was exactly what I was looking for! --Abdull 18:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Error in example?

"For example, if a client creates a window of identifier 0x1e00021 and [...]" but 3 paragraphs above states "Identifiers are 32-bit integers with their three most significant bits equal to zero", so how could the identifier end with 0xb001?

Sorry.. MOST significant bits.. not the least significant.. Can someone delete this please..?

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because of the new CSS, table of content can not be hidden when printing

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