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    The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project...
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    In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical...
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  • In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols...
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    An X window manager is a window manager that runs on top of the X Window System, a windowing system mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike MacOS Classic...
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    operating systems, relying instead on interfaces based on other technologies. On systems running the X Window System (typically Unix-family systems such as...
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  • The X Window System core protocol is the base protocol of the X Window System, which is a networked windowing system for bitmap displays used to build...
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  • the free dictionary. X video may refer to: A porn video X video extension, a video output mechanism for the X Window System X-Video Motion Compensation...
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  • The W Window System, or simply W, is a discontinued windowing system and precursor, in name and concept, to the modern X Window System. W was originally...
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  • The X video extension, often abbreviated as XVideo or Xv, is a video output mechanism for the X Window System. The protocol was designed by David Carver;...
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  • operating system. This article applies to operating systems which are capable of running the X Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such...
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    have created their own windowing systems based on independent code, but with basic elements in common that define the WIMP "window, icon, menu and pointing...
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    dynamic window manager that is built using WinUI 3 and the .NET framework. In the X Window System, the window manager is a separate program. X itself enforces...
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  • article compares variety of different X window managers. For an introduction to the topic, see X Window System. LGPL-2.1-only with naming restrictions...
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  • platform X-sistemo in Esperanto orthography SIGSALY, secure voice transmission system; sometimes called "X System" X Window System Search for "system x"  or...
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    X.Org Server is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) display server stewarded by the X.Org Foundation. Implementations...
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    A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...
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  • the numeric keypad layout standardized with the introduction of the X Window System in 1984. Historically, MouseKeys supported GUI programs when many terminals...
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  • the X Window System, which communicates with clients over a socket (either Unix domain or Berkeley): def main(): file_fd = open("logfile.log") x_fd =...
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  • drag-and-drop are the mechanisms used in the X Window System to allow a user to transfer data from one window to another. Selections and cut buffer are typically...
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  • In the X Window System, programs run as X clients, and as such they connect to the X display server, possibly via a computer network. Since the network...
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    most popular on Linux and other systems using the X Window System, but software exists to implement them on Windows and macOS. The Compose Character...
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    Linux (redirect from GNU/Linux/X)
    placement and appearance of individual application windows, and interact with the X Window System. Simpler X window managers such as dwm, ratpoison, or i3wm provide...
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    Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland...
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  • certain extensions of the X Window System are not capable of working over the network. In a centralized database system, the only available resource...
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    Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
    (Tab Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. Started in 1987 by Tom LaStrange, it has been the standard window manager for the X Window...
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  • about the X Window System, and the window system took care of the networking: essentially one computer displaying on several screens. The X version of...
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  • regardless of the resolution of the screen. As early as 1978, the typesetting system TeX due to Donald Knuth introduced resolution independence into the world...
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  • Windows X may refer to: X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computers An implementation of the X server for Microsoft...
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  • industry – Windows (unqualified) for a consumer or corporate workstation, Windows Server for a server and Windows IoT for an embedded system. Windows is sold...
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    In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer...
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