The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. The journal is the Official Publisher of the X Consortium Technical Conference Proceedings, which form the January issue. 7TH ANNUAL X TECHNICAL CONFERENCE

• Proposal for an X-based Online Help Protocol Kent J. Summers and Jeffrey L. Vogel
• Describing Formats for X-based Data Interchange Ellis S. Cohen
• A Widget Class Extension for Improved Geometry Management Steve Humphrey
• The Layout Widget: A TeX-Style Constraint Widget Class Keith Packard
• Building Distributed User Interfaces with Fresco Mark Linton and Chuck Price
• Melding OSF/Motif, C++ and the Intrinsics Douglas S. Rand and Gilles Benati
• The Trestle Toolkit Mark S. Manasse
• Hypergraphics and Hypertext in Tk John K. Ousterhout
• The X Engine Library: A C++ Library for Constructing X Pseudo-servers John Menges
• The X File System Jeff Nisewanger
• Trace Analysis of the X Window System Protocol Laurence P. G. Cable and Stuart W. Marks
• Multi-threaded Xlib Stephen Gildea
• Distributed Memory Multi-computers as X Clients Steve R. Ball and Chris W. Johnson
• GUI for Near-Real-Time Applications in X -- Programming Tips Ilan Aisic
• TaX: A Tool for Building Time Dependent Applications Nuno M. Correia and Nuno M. Guimaraes
• Supporting Mobile, Pen-Based Computing with X James Kempf and Alan Wilson
• Making the X Window System Accessible to People with Disabilities Will D. Walker and Mark E. Novak
• Runtime Translation of X Interfaces to Support Visually-Impaired Users Keith Edwards and Thomas Rodriguez
• A Fully Functional Implementation of Layered Windows Peter Daifuku
• An Update on Low-Bandwidth X (LBX) Jim Fulton

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