The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. The journal is the Official Publisher of the X Consortium Technical Conference Proceedings, which form the January issue.7TH ANNUAL X TECHNICAL CONFERENCEProposal for an X-based Online Help Protocol Kent J. Summers and Jeffrey L. VogelDescribing Formats for X-based Data Interchange Ellis S. CohenA Widget Class Extension for Improved Geometry Management Steve HumphreyThe Layout Widget: A TeX-Style Constraint Widget Class Keith PackardBuilding Distributed User Interfaces with Fresco Mark Linton and Chuck PriceMelding OSF/Motif, C++ and the Intrinsics Douglas S. Rand and Gilles BenatiThe Trestle Toolkit Mark S. ManasseHypergraphics and Hypertext in Tk John K. OusterhoutThe X Engine Library: A C++ Library for Constructing X Pseudo-servers John MengesThe X File System Jeff NisewangerTrace Analysis of the X Window System Protocol Laurence P. G. Cable and Stuart W. MarksMulti-threaded Xlib Stephen GildeaDistributed Memory Multi-computers as X Clients Steve R. Ball and Chris W. JohnsonGUI for Near-Real-Time Applications in X -- Programming Tips Ilan AisicTaX: A Tool for Building Time Dependent Applications Nuno M. Correia and Nuno M. GuimaraesSupporting Mobile, Pen-Based Computing with X James Kempf and