The xwin driver
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## The xwin driver

The xwin driver directly uses the X library to implement the xwin device. The graphical quality of this device is poor (e.g., there is no antialiasing of graphics or text, it uses Hershey fonts rather than unicode-aware system fonts, and it has no complex text layout capabilities). Nevertheless its raw interactive capabilities are the best of all our devices. For example, the interactive parts of standard example 20 work correctly with this device.

Plots are displayed one page at a time. The pager is advanced by pressing the Enter key, and may only be advanced in the forward direction.

The available driver options are:

- sync: Synchronized X server operation (0|1)

- nobuffered: Sets unbuffered operation (0|1)

- noinitcolors: Sets cmap0 allocation (0|1)

- defvis: Use the Default Visual (0|1)

- usepth: Use pthreads (0|1)

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