[Xcb] Questions about the X protocol and the XCB implementation

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Jan 28 15:17:12 PST 2014


On 01/28/14 03:04 PM, Jochen Keil wrote:
> Hello,
>
> currently I'm trying to understand the X protocol and the XCB
> implementation better. My first question about the X protocol would be
> if there is something like a picture or so which describes the
> (byte-wise) layout of a request/event/etc. packet.
> Maybe similar to what exists for the TCP/IP packets. Or is this
> a misconception of mine?

Not a picture exactly, but a bunch of charts:

http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#protocol_encoding


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