XLIB Programming Manual, Rel. 5, Third Edition

Appendix F. The Xmu Library

The Xmu library provides a number of functions that combine Xlib functions in useful ways. This appendix summarizes the available functions. See Appendix J of Volume Two, Xlib Reference Manual, for detailed reference pages for each function. (After mid-1992, these reference pages may be moved to a new volume, Extensions and Utilities.)

The Xmu Library is a collection of miscellaneous (some might say random) utility functions that have been useful in building various applications and Xt Toolkit widgets. Though not defined by any X Consortium standard, this library is written and supported by MIT in the core distribution and therefore should be available on most machines.

The functions in Xmu are briefly described here in several categories: atom manipulation, error handlers, system utilities, window utilities, cursor utilities, color utilities, pixmap utilities, graphics functions, selection functions, character set functions, compound text functions, close display functions, event queue functions, and standard colormap functions. For detailed calling sequences for these functions, see Appendix J, The Xmu Library, of Volume Two, Xlib Reference Manual.

At each release, the number and variety of functions in this library have increased dramatically. Even if you are familiar with the contents of Xmu in an earlier release, it is worthwhile skimming this appendix.

Each of the groups of functions listed below has its own header file. The Xmu header files are located ...