X Rendering Extension

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X Rendering Extension

xclock uses the render extension for rendering translucent and antialiased clock hands
Original author(s)	X.Org Foundation
Stable release	0.11 / July 15, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-15)
Platform	Unix, Unix-like

The X Rendering Extension (Render or XRender) is an extension to the X11 core protocol to implement image compositing in the X server, to allow an efficient display of transparent images.