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 What is GDK?
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    GDK is designed as a wrapper library that lies on top of Xlib. It
 performs many common and desired operations for a programmer instead of
 the programmer having to explicitly ask for such functionality from
 Xlib directly. For example, GDK provides a common interface to both
 regular and shared memory XImage types. By doing so, an application can
 nearly transparently use the fastest image type available. GDK also
 provides routines for determining the best available color depth and
 the best available visual which is not always the default visual for a
 screen.
 
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