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| XLib-XRender BackendXLib-XRender Backend — X Window System rendering using XLib and the X Render extension | 
| cairo_surface_t * | cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_format () | 
| XRenderPictFormat * | cairo_xlib_surface_get_xrender_format () | 
The XLib surface is used to render cairo graphics to X Window System windows and pixmaps using the XLib and Xrender libraries.
Note that the XLib surface automatically takes advantage of X Render extension if it is available.
cairo_surface_t * cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_format (Display *dpy,Drawable drawable,Screen *screen,XRenderPictFormat *format,int width,int height);
Creates an Xlib surface that draws to the given drawable. The way that colors are represented in the drawable is specified by the provided picture format.
Note: If drawable
 is a Window, then the function
cairo_xlib_surface_set_size() must be called whenever the size of the
window changes.
| dpy | an X Display | |
| drawable | an X Drawable, (a Pixmap or a Window) | |
| screen | the X Screen associated with  | |
| format | the picture format to use for drawing to  | |
| width | the current width of  | |
| height | the current height of  | 
Since 1.0
XRenderPictFormat *
cairo_xlib_surface_get_xrender_format (cairo_surface_t *surface);
Gets the X Render picture format that surface
 uses for rendering with the
X Render extension. If the surface was created by
cairo_xlib_surface_create_with_xrender_format() originally, the return
value is the format passed to that constructor.
 the XRenderPictFormat* associated with surface
,
or NULL if the surface is not an xlib surface
or if the X Render extension is not available.
Since 1.6