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# Running X

[[User documentation|UserDocumentation]] contains documentation for running the X server and basic X clients, as well as protocol specifications and basic client programming documentation. 


# Developing X applications

Rather than develop directly for X, we recommend you use a toolkit such as [[GTK+|https://www.gtk.org/docs]] or [[Qt|https://doc.qt.io/]]. There are many other popular toolkits, some special-purpose, such as [[Clutter|http://www.clutter-project.org/]] and [[Enlightenment/EFL|https://www.enlightenment.org/]]. 

For low-level X development, [[XCB|https://xcb.freedesktop.org/tutorial/]], the X C Bindings provide a clean low-level protocol binding.  Its older cousin Xlib (or libX11), is not recommended for new development, but is still very widely used.  Xt is a similarly deprecated library for building toolkits.  [[Documentation for Xlib and Xt|ProgrammingDocumentation]] is available. 

Protocol documentation, man pages, etc. is available at: [[https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/index.html]]


# Downloading, running, and developing X.Org code

The [[development documentation|Development]] describes how to download and build the X.Org code (including the X server and drivers), and rough notes on their internals. 

[[The X New Developer’s Guide|guide]] attempts to be a gentle introduction to how the entire stack is put together and how some of the pieces work.