dsl@box:~$ apt-cache policy xlibs
xlibs:
Installed: 4.3.0-0ds4
Candidate: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
Version Table:
4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3 0
990 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 0
990 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
*** 4.3.0-0ds4 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
dsl@box:~$ dpkg -s xlibs
Package: xlibs
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 2024
Maintainer: Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.3.0-0ds4
Replaces: xlib, xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), xlib6 (<< 3.3.2.3-2), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xpm4g, fvwm-common, xcontrib, xsm, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xlibs-data (<< 4.2.99.4-2)
Provides: libxpm4
Depends: xfree86-common (>> 4.2), xlibs-data (= 4.3.0-0ds4), libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.6), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.1.93), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1)
Conflicts: xlib, xlib6 (<< 3.3.2.3-2), xlib6g (<< 4.0), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xbase-clients (<< 4.0), xcontrib (<< 4.0), xsm (<< 4.0), xpm4g, fvwm-common, qcad (<< 1.4.6-1), xbase-clients (<< 4.2.0), xlibs-data (<< 4.2.99.4-2)
Description: X Window System client libraries
The X libraries are an interface between X client programs and the
hardware-oriented X servers, and consist of routines to read input from the
keyboard and pointer, draw on the screen, etc., in an abstract manner that is
independent of the particular characteristics of the hardware. The X
libraries, and the programs that use them, communicate with X servers by
means of the X protocol.
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libX11 (a.k.a. Xlib) provides the low-level functionality, dealing mostly
with the wire protocol and in terms of basic operations such as opening and
closing the X protocol connection, creating graphics contexts, drawing
graphics primitives such as lines, arcs, and glyphs, handling events, and so
forth.
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libXpm, the X pixmap library, is a set of routines used to store and retrieve
X pixmaps (a data structure comprising a rectangular array of pixels) from
files; the xpm file format is an extension of the monochrome bitmap file
format in the X11 specification. (Traditionally, libXpm was maintained and
distributed separately from the X Window System, but XFree86 has absorbed
this library).
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libXt, the X Toolkit Intrinsics, is an abstract widget library upon which
graphical widget libraries (such as Athena and LessTif) may be developed; the
Intrinsics provide a number of useful interfaces to X conventions and
protocols, in many cases reducing a long series of Xlib calls to just a
couple of Xt calls.
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libXmu is a set of miscellaneous utility functions useful to client
programmers.
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libXmuu is a very small set of miscellaneous utility functions extracted
from Xmu, Xt, and Xaw, for clients that need the occasional useful
function from these libraries but do not require the toolkit overhead. To
use libXmuu, simply include the headers for the other libraries in the
client and link against Xmuu instead of Xmu, Xt, and Xaw. Needless to
say, if the client uses functions from Xmu, Xt, or Xaw that are not
present in Xmuu, it will fail to link.
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The remainder of the libraries in this package implement the client side
of various X protocol extensions:
- libICE, the Inter-Client Exchange extension;
- libSM, the Session Management extension;
- libXext, a collection of several commonly-used extensions;
- libXft, a FreeType-based font rendering extension;
- libXi, the X Input extension;
- libXp, the X Printing extension;
- libXrender, an extension for digital image composition;
- libXrandr, the RnR (resizing and rotation for the root window) extension;
- libXTrap, an extension for capturing the server protocol and synthesizing
core input events;
- libXtst, the X Testing extension; and
- libxrx, the remote activation extension.
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The PEX5 and XIE extension libraries are no longer part of this package;
they are deprecated, and practically unused in modern X clients.
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xlibs also contains the XKB keyboard parameter files, locale data, and a set
of bitmap and pixmap image files commonly used by X clients.