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. The articles for Issue 9:8TH ANNUAL X TECHNICAL CONFERENCE"Use Cases, Objects, and X Applications: Improving Ergonomics and Usability Through User Centered Design, " by Steven C. Bilow "Zero-Defect Widgets: A formal approach to testing Xt-based toolkits, " by Satyajit Nath"Traitifying Motif, " by Daniel Dardailler"Extending Xt To Support CORBA-based Embedding, " by Charles A. Price"Redisplay in Fresco, " by Mark Linton "PEX 6.0-Not!" (Abstract only) by Jeff Stevenson"X Server Multi-rendering for OpenGL and PEX, " by Mark J. Kilgard, Simon Hui, Allen A. Leinwand, and Dave Spalding"The Smart Frame Buffer Goes Hollywood: 3D and TV" (Abstract only) by Joel McCormack, Bob McNamara, and Chris Gianos"Xvan: A True Multiple Screen X Server, " by Peter C. Jones"Experience with XIE: Server and Client, Past, Present and Future, " by Ben Fahy, Ph.D."Design and Implementation of LBX: An Experiment Based Standard, " by Keith Packard"Overview of the X Keyboard Extension, " by Erik Fortune"Mission Critical: The Selling of X" (Abstract only) by Peter Shaw"X Consortium, Inc.: A Status Report" (Abstract only) by Bob Scheifler"Inter-Client Communication in X11R6 and Beyond, " by Stuart W. Marks"XSMP: The New Session Management Protocol, " by Mike Wexler"The POSC/Halliburton Shared Colormap System: Distributed Management of XColor Resources, " by F. Beachley Main"NetAudio: Make Your Applications Sing (As Well As Dance), " by Jim Fulton, and Greg Renda"X11 in Virtual Environments: Combining Computer Interaction, " by Phillip C. Dykstra"Xmc and Xy-Scalable Window Sharing and Mobility, or, From X Protoc