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Fontconfig ships with eight command line utilities to manage and query fonts and the font configuration of the system: fc-list: Lists all fonts fontconfig knows about or all fonts matching a pattern. fc-match: Matches font-pattern (empty pattern by default) using the normal fontconfig matching rules to find the most appropriate font available.
Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard. [3] [4] It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.
luit was written in 2001 by Juliusz Chroboczek, [4] when major Linux distributions began migrating to the Unicode character set from "legacy" encodings such as ISO 8859-1. [3] It has since become a widely installed base utility, present on more than half of all Linux computer systems by some estimates. [7] [8] It is also part of IBM's AIX. [9]
AppStream is an agreement between major Linux vendors (i.e. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Debian, Mandriva, etc.) to create an infrastructure for application installers on Linux and sharing of metadata. [2] The initiative was started as early as 19-21 January, 2011. [3]
A more complete view of the Linux graphics stack Programs often use GTK or FLTK or Qt for their GUI widgets. A more complete view of the components of an operating system for home computers. XCB ( X protocol C-language Binding ) is a library implementing the client-side of the X11 display server protocol.
Xephyr is a display server software implementing the X11 display server protocol based on KDrive which targets a window on a host X Server as its framebuffer.It is written by Matthew Allum.
freedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG), [1] [2] is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a ...
Wayland is a communication protocol that specifies the communication between a display server and its clients, as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. [9] A display server using the Wayland protocol is called a Wayland compositor, because it additionally performs the task of a compositing window manager.