Editing GLX (section)

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{{short description|Extension to the X Window System core protocol}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = GLX
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| author                 = [[Silicon Graphics, Inc.|SGI]]
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| released               = 1992
| latest release version = 1.4
| latest release date    = December 16, 2005
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| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
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| license                = SGI FreeB License<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/
 | title=History and Most Recent Version of the SGI Free Software License B
 | date=2012
 | author=oss-project-owners
 | publisher=[[Silicon Graphics International]]
 | access-date=2017-04-11
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420064437/http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/
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| website                = {{URL|https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/GLX/}} <!-- Better than nothing, and FreeDesktop do seem to be the ones in charge of its amendments -->
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'''GLX''' ([[Acronym and initialism|initialism]] for "Open'''GL''' Extension to the '''X''' Window System") is an extension to the [[X Window System core protocol]] providing an [[Interface (computing)|interface]] between [[OpenGL]] and the [[X Window System]] as well as extensions to OpenGL itself. It enables programs wishing to use OpenGL to do so within a window provided by the X Window System. GLX distinguishes two "states": indirect state and direct state.