Packages in the xorg section

discover1	1.7.7	hardware identification system
hotplug	0.0.20040329-22	Linux Hotplug Scripts
libx11-6	4.3.0.dfsg.1-13	X Window System protocol client library
mdetect	0.5.2	mouse device autodetection tool
x-ttcidfont-conf	17	Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
x-window-system-core	4.3.0.dfsg.1-13	X Window System core components
xbase-clients	4.3.0.dfsg.1-13	miscellaneous X clients
xresprobe	0.4.18-1	X Resolution Probe
xutils	4.3.0.dfsg.1-13	X Window System utility programs

discover1

Version: 1.7.7
Description: hardware identification system

 Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover1
 library.  Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can use to
 report a wide range of information about the hardware that is installed on a
 Linux system.  In addition to reporting information, discover includes
 support for doing hardware detection at boot time.  Detection occurs in two
 stages: The first stage, which runs from an initial ramdisk (initrd), loads
 just the drivers needed to mount the root file system, and the second stage
 loads the rest (ethernet cards, sound cards, etc.).

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hotplug

Version: 0.0.20040329-22
Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts

 This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support,
 and lets you plug in new devices and use them immediately.
 It includes support for PCI, Cardbus (PCMCIA), USB and Firewire devices
 and can automatically configure network interfaces.

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libx11-6

Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13
Description: X Window System protocol client library

 The libX11 library, also known as "Xlib", provides a means of communicating
 with an X server via the X protocol.
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 Xlib provides low-level functionality, dealing mostly with the wire protocol
 and in terms of basic operations such as opening and closing the connection
 to the X server, creating graphics contexts, drawing graphics primitives such
 as lines, arcs, and glyphs, handling events, and so forth.  A set of
 dynamically-loadable internationalization modules is also part of this
 package, though not in the libX11 shared object itself.
 .
 Application programmers who are new to the X Window System will likely find
 one of the many "Toolkit" libraries far more convenient to program against
 than Xlib directly.  Examples of popular toolkit libraries are GTK+, Qt,
 XForms, LessTif, and Athena.
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 libx11-6 depends on xlibs-data for locale data and the X error and keysym
 databases.

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mdetect

Version: 0.5.2
Description: mouse device autodetection tool

 mdetect is a tool for autoconfiguring mice; it is typically used as the
 backend to some user-friendly frontend code.  mdetect writes the autodetected
 mouse device and protocol (as used by gpm) to standard output.  It can be
 invoked so as to produce output appropriate for XFree86 X server
 configuration files.

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x-ttcidfont-conf

Version: 17
Description: Configure TrueType? and CID fonts for X

 This package configures TrueType fonts and CID fonts (as well as CMaps)
 for X. It generates .scale file and .alias file from TrueType and CID
 fonts registered to Defoma, and calls mkfontdir (and mkcfm).
 Both xtt and freetype backends which are used to handle TrueType fonts
 in X are supported.

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x-window-system-core

Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13
Description: X Window System core components

 This metapackage provides the essential components for a standalone
 workstation running the X Window System.  It provides the X libraries, an X
 server (except on the S/390 architecture), a set of fonts, and a group of
 basic X clients and utilities.
 .
 Higher level metapackages, such as those for desktop environments, can
 depend on this package and simplify their dependencies.
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 It should be noted that a package providing x-window-manager and a package
 providing x-terminal-emulator should also be installed to ensure a
 comfortable X experience.

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xbase-clients

Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13
Description: miscellaneous X clients

 An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
 the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a
 graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
 .
 This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of several dozen X clients
 that ship with the X Window System, including:
  - startx and xinit, which initialize X sessions from the command line;
  - xauth, a tool for controlling access to the X session;
  - xedit, a text editor;
  - xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
  - xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
  - xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
  - xcutsel, which exchanges selection and cut buffer contents;
  - xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
  - xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
  - xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
  - xfd, a tool that displays all the glyphs in a given X font;
  - xfontsel, a tool for browsing and selecting X fonts;
  - xhost, a very dangerous program that you should never use;
  - xkill, a tool for terminating misbehaving X clients;
  - xload, a monitor for the system load average;
  - xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
  - xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
  - xman, a manual page browser;
  - xmessage, a tool to display message or dialog boxes;
  - xrandr, a command-line interface to the RandR extension;
  - xrefresh, a tool that forces a redraw of the X screen;
  - xsetroot, a tool for tailoring the appearance of the root window;
  - xtrapchar, xtrapin, xtrapinfo, xtrapout, xtrapproto, xtrapreset, and
    xtrapstats, a group of sample clients that use the XTrap extension;
  - xvidtune, a tool for customizing X server modelines for your monitor;
  - xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X session;
  - xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
  - oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
  - beforelight, a screen saver;
  - atobm, a converter from ASCII to X bitmap (.xbm) files;
  - bitmap, a monochrome bitmap file editor;
  - bmtoa, a tool that converts a monochrome bitmap to ASCII text;
  - cxpm and sxpm, tools for checking and viewing X pixmap files;
  - dpsexec, a Display PostScript program that allows the user to interact
    directly with the PostScript interpreter through a command interface
  - dpsinfo, a utility for displaying information about the DPS extension
    present in an X server or provided by a client-side DPS agent
  - glxgears, a GLX demo that draws three rotating gears, and prints
    framerate information to standard output
  - iceauth, a tool for manipulating ICE protocol authorization records;
  - texteroids, a spinning text demo for the DPS extension
  - xset, a tool for setting miscellaneous X server parameters;
  - xmodmap, a utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in X;
  - xsetmode and xsetpointer, tools for handling X Input devices;
  - setxkbmap, xkbbell, xkbcomp, xkbevd, xkbprint, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch,
    tools for managing the X Keyboard Extension (XKB);
  - xsm, a session manager for X sessions;
  - smproxy, a session manager proxy for X clients that do not use the X
    session manager protocol;
  - xgamma, a tool for querying and setting a monitor's gamma correction;
  - appres, editres, listres, viewres, and xrdb, which query and update the
    X resource database;
  - Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical
    operations under the X Window System;
  - fstobdf, which retrieves a font in BDF format from an X font server;
  - xcmsdb, a device color characteristic utility for the X Color Management
    System;
  - xstdcmap, a utility to selectively define standard colormap properties;
  - xev, an X event displayer;
  - xfindproxy, a tool to locate X proxy services;
  - xlsatoms, which lists interned atoms defined on an X server;
  - xlsclients, which lists client applications running on an X display;
  - xlsfonts, a server font list displayer;
  - xprop, a property displayer for X;
  - xdpyinfo, a display information utility for X;
  - xwininfo, a window information utility for X;
  - glxinfo, a GLX extension information utility for X;
  - xvinfo, an Xv extension information utility for X;
  - ico, an X graphics demo using an animated polyhedron;
  - dga, a demo program for the DGA extension; and
  - xgc, an (unfinished) X graphics demo program.
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 xbase-clients also -- except on the s390 architecture -- contains the XFree86
 X server configuration programs xf86cfg and xf86config, but in general the
 Debconf interface to the xserver-xfree86 package should be used instead of
 these tools.
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 The bitmap, editres, viewres, xbiff, xcalc, xconsole, xditview, xedit,
 xf86cfg, xman, xsetroot, and xsm programs use bitmap images provided by the
 xlibs-data package.  xkbcomp uses the XKEYBOARD (XKB) extension configuration
 data provided by the xlibs package.
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 xrdb requires the C preprocessor (cpp) to process X resource files.  The GNU
 C preprocessor's "-traditional" support misbehaves in early releases of the
 GCC 3.3 series; therefore, this package conflicts with those versions.
 .
 (Strictly speaking, atobm does not depend on any X libraries, but it shares a
 manual page with bitmap and bmtoa, and so is grouped with them in this
 package.)

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xresprobe

Version: 0.4.18-1
Description: X Resolution Probe

 xresprobe is a package that probes both laptop and DDC-compliant screens for
 their standard resolutions, and returns a specifically-formatted, easy-to-parse
 output.
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 It contains the 'ddcprobe' package, which performs a DDC probe to the monitor;
 however, ddcprobe only works on i386 and powerpc. The laptop detection routines
 are, however, sufficiently generic to to be useful to other architectures.

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xutils

Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13
Description: X Window System utility programs

 xutils provides a set of utility programs shipped with the X Window System
 that do not require the X libraries; many of these programs are useful
 even on a system that does not have any X clients or X servers installed.
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 The programs in this package include:
  - bdftopcf, which converts BDF fonts to PCF fonts;
  - bdftruncate and ucs2any, tools to generate fonts with various encodings
    from ISO 10646-encoded fonts
  - ccmakedep, a version of makedepend which "does it right"
  - cleanlinks, a program to remove dangling symlinks and empty directories
    from a shadow link tree (created with lndir)
  - fslsfonts, a tool that lists fonts served by an X font server;
  - imake, a C preprocessor interface to the make utility;
  - lndir, a tool that creates a shadow directory of symbolic links to
    another directory tree;
  - luit, a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a
    UTF-8 terminal emulator;
  - makedepend, a tool to create dependencies in makefiles;
  - makeg, a tool for making debuggable executables;
  - makepsres, a tool that creates PostScript language resource database
    files;
  - makestrs, a tool that makes string table C source and header(s);
  - mkcfm, a tool that create summaries of font metric files in CID font
    directories;
  - mkdirhier, a tool that creates a directory hierarchy;
  - mkfontdir, a program to generate fonts.dir files;
  - scanpci, a utility for retrieving information about the PCI bus and
    devices on it (not available on all architectures);
  - pcitweak, a utility that can be used to examine or change registers in
    the PCI configuration space (not available on all architectures);
  - pswrap, a tool that creates C procedures from segments of PostScript
    language code;
  - resize, which prints a shell command for setting the TERM and TERMCAP
    environment variables to indicate the current size of the xterm (or
    compatible program) window from which the command is run;
  - revpath, which generates a relative path that can be used to undo a
    change-directory;
  - rstart, a remote start client;
  - rstartd, a remote start daemon activated by rstart connections;
  - sessreg, a simple program for managing utmp/wtmp entries;
  - showfont, a font dumper for use with an X font server;
  - showrgb, a decompiler for RGB color-name databases;
  - xfsinfo, an X font server information utility;
  - xmkmf, a tool that creates a Makefile from an Imakefile; and
  - xon, a tool that starts an X program on a remote machine.
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 Installation of an rsh or ssh daemon (server) is necessary if rstartd is
 to be used, and installation of an rsh or ssh client is necessary if
 rstart is to be used.  The luit program requires locale information from
 the xlibs-data package.
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 imake uses the C preprocessor (cpp) as a macro processor.  The GNU C
 preprocessor's "-traditional" support misbehaves in early releases of the GCC
 3.3 series; therefore, this package conflicts with those versions.

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