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From: dshr@eng.sun.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Where do I find information about ICCCM?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 15:48:08 GMT
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The Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual is one of the
official X Consortium standards documents that define the X
environment.  It describes the conventions that clients must
observe to coexist peacfully with other clients sharing
the same server.  If you are writing X clients,  you need to
have read and understood the ICCCM,  in particular the sections
discussing the selection mechanism and the interaction between your
client and the window manager.  Get it either:

-	As part of the R4 distribution from MIT.

-	In the 2nd edition of the Digital Press book:

		X Window System,  R W Scheifler & J Gettys
		ISBN: 1-55558-050-5

The version in the DP book is much more readable,  thanks to the
efforts of Digital's editors to improve the English and the
presentation.

	David.