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Package: libx11-6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge7)

X Window System protocol client library

The libX11 library, also known as "Xlib", provides a means of communicating with an X server via the X protocol.

Xlib provides low-level functionality, dealing mostly with the wire protocol and in terms of basic operations such as opening and closing the connection to the X server, creating graphics contexts, drawing graphics primitives such as lines, arcs, and glyphs, handling events, and so forth. A set of dynamically-loadable internationalization modules is also part of this package, though not in the libX11 shared object itself.

Application programmers who are new to the X Window System will likely find one of the many "Toolkit" libraries far more convenient to program against than Xlib directly. Examples of popular toolkit libraries are GTK+, Qt, XForms, LessTif, and Athena.

libx11-6 depends on xlibs-data for locale data and the X error and keysym databases.

Other Packages Related to libx11-6

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  • dep: debconf (>= 0.5)
    Debian configuration management system
    or debconf-2.0
    virtual package provided by cdebconf, debconf
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: xfree86-common (>> 4.3.0)
    X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure
  • dep: xlibs-data
    X Window System client data

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