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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2010-06-08 19:36:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2010-06-08 19:36:06 -0700 |
| commit | 74a751e9821bcd313ed9b8fb71d30ac9b5598b23 (patch) | |
| tree | f7bff13bae8456e07e677c7eecefb44b52186e83 | |
| parent | cb487b4242b653f75772bef6f7c1da0ddc9a03c0 (diff) | |
Add note about XTrap history & deprecation to README
Summarized from the description in the xtrap(1) man page.
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
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@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +libXTrap is the Xlib-based client API for the DEC-XTRAP extension. + +XTrap was a proposed standard extension for X11R5 which facilitated the +capturing of server protocol and synthesizing core input events. + +Digital participated in the X Consortium's xtest working group which chose +to evolve XTrap functionality into the XTEST & RECORD extensions for X11R6. + +As X11R6 was released in 1994, XTrap has now been deprecated for over +15 years, and uses of it should be quite rare. All questions regarding this software should be directed at the Xorg mailing list: |