X Consortium Projects

The following are projects the X Consortium has recently been working on.

- Fresco, a C++ toolkit featuring a CORBA-based object model, structured
  graphics, device-independent and resolution-independent graphics and
  printing, graphical edit-in-place embedding with network distribution,
  multithreading, Xt interoperability, and window system independence

- the Keyboard extension, supporting ISO 9995, disability access, and more

- LBX, the Low Bandwidth X protocol

- DBE, the Double-Buffering extension.  This replaces the Multi-Buffering
  extension

- an Extended Visuals extension, for describing sophisticated frame
  buffer capabilities

- PEX 5.2, featuring texture mapping, alpha blending, transparency rendering,
  and many new primitives and attributes

- XRECORD, an extension for recording X protocol traffic

- External Agent support

- CommonAudio, providing a standard network protocol for digital audio

- Discussion of what other aspects of Multimedia the X Consortium
  should be involved in

- X through corporate firewalls

- Printing using the X protocol and existing Xlib (and related) APIs