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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Standard protocol for the X Window System</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Ice Cubed" redirects here. For the form of water ice, see <a href="/wiki/Ice_cube" title="Ice cube">Ice cube</a>. For the high speed train, see <a href="/wiki/ICE_3" title="ICE 3">ICE 3</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Ice_cube_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Ice cube (disambiguation)">Ice cube (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Computing" title="Computing">computing</a>, the <b>Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual</b> (<b>ICCCM</b> or <b>I39L</b> short for "I", 39 letters and "L")<sup id="cite_ref-disaster_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-disaster-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a standard protocol for the <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System" title="X Window System">X Window System</a>. It specifies conventions for <a href="/wiki/Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)">clients</a> of a common <a href="/wiki/X_Window_System_protocols_and_architecture" title="X Window System protocols and architecture">X server</a> about <a href="/wiki/X_Window_selection" title="X Window selection">selections and cut buffers</a>, communication with the <a href="/wiki/X_window_manager" title="X window manager">window manager</a> and <a href="/wiki/X_session_manager" title="X session manager">session manager</a>, manipulation of shared resources, and color characterization. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was designed by <a href="/wiki/David_S._H._Rosenthal" title="David S. H. Rosenthal">David S. H. Rosenthal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/MIT_X_Consortium" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT X Consortium">MIT X Consortium</a> from 1987 to 1989. A draft version appeared in March 1988 in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R2/">X11R2</a>. This was removed from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/releases/X11R3/CHANGES.ALL">X11R3</a>. Version 1.0 was released in July 1989 as part of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/releases/X11R4/RELNOTES.txt">X11R4</a>. Three window managers in the X11R4 contrib directory implemented support for ICCCM: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tronche.com/gui/x/gwm/html-manual/">gwm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olwm" title="Olwm">olwm</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R4/#index27h4">tekwm</a>. Version 1.1 contains an update for <a href="/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space" title="CIE 1931 color space">color characterization</a> and appeared in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/releases/X11R5/RELNOTES.TXT">X11R5</a>. Version 2.0 has many changes in the areas of window management, <a href="/wiki/X_Window_selection" title="X Window selection">selections</a>, <a href="/wiki/X_session_manager" title="X session manager">session management</a>, and resource sharing. It was released in May 1994 as part of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R6/">X11R6</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>X deliberately specifies "mechanism, not policy" for how windows interact. As such, an additional specification beyond the X protocol itself was needed for client interoperation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ICCCM specifies cut and paste buffers, window manager interaction, session management, how to manipulate shared resources and how to manage device colours. These low-level functions are generally implemented within <a href="/wiki/Widget_toolkit" title="Widget toolkit">widget toolkits</a> or <a href="/wiki/Desktop_environment" title="Desktop environment">desktop environments</a>. This isolates application programmers from working directly with the ICCCM itself, as this functionality is delegated to the implementing toolkit. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Inter-Client_Communication_Conventions_Manual&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ICCCM has received some criticism for being ambiguous and difficult to implement correctly. <sup id="cite_ref-disaster_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-disaster-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was acknowledged in the preface of version 2.0, stating that it aimed "to fix problems with earlier drafts, and to improve readability and understandability". </p><p>Furthermore, some parts may be obsolete or no longer practical to implement. <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Extended_Window_Manager_Hints" class="mw-redirect" title="Extended Window Manager Hints">Extended Window Manager Hints</a> (EWMH) is a more recent standard, which, according to its introduction: "builds on the ICCCM, which defines window manager interactions at a lower level. The ICCCM does not provide ways to implement many features that modern desktop users expect." But it also states: "Clients which aim to fulfill this specification MUST adhere to the ICCCM on which this specification builds." insofar the EWMH doesn't overrule. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Freedesktop.org" title="Freedesktop.org">Freedesktop.org</a> notes that "historically, X clients have not handled cut-and-paste in a consistent way" and formulates additional guidelines in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt">clipboards-spec</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210217014751/https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt">Archived</a> 2021-02-17 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Window_Managers_that_are_ICCCM_Compliant">List of Window Managers that are ICCCM Compliant</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/Help:Editing" title="Help:Editing">Editing help</a> is available.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2016</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li>aewm — a <a href="/wiki/Stacking_window_manager" title="Stacking window manager">stacking window manager</a>.</li> <li>alloywm — partial compliance.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Awesome_(window_manager)" title="Awesome (window manager)">awesome</a> — a <a href="/wiki/Dynamic_window_manager" title="Dynamic window manager">dynamic window manager</a> that is configured in <a href="/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)" title="Lua (programming language)">Lua</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackbox" title="Blackbox">Blackbox</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compiz" title="Compiz">Compiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CTWM" title="CTWM">CTWM</a></li> <li><a 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