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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reference implementation, X.Org Server, available as free and open-source software under the MIT License and similar permissive licenses. X is an architecture-independent...
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and the X Window System and its primary implementation, the X.Org Server. The X.Org Foundation was founded on 22 January 2004. The modern X.Org Foundation...
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stewardship in 2004 X.Org Server, the reference implementation of X developed by the Foundation X.Org, the organization in charge of X standards from 1999...
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Windowing system (redirect from Display server)
clients. Programs communicate with the X.Org Server through a client library, such as Xlib and XCB. After the X.Org Server receives data from its clients, it...
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X server may refer to: a display server for the X Window System X.Org Server, the X.Org Foundation's display server for the X Window System HPE Integrity...
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freedesktop.org joined the X.Org Foundation in 2019. Some of the project's servers are hosted by Portland State University. freedesktop.org provides hosting...
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disabled by default as of X.Org Server 7.1, and was removed for version 7.2. X was originally implemented for use with the server and client on the same...
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Wayland (protocol) (redirect from Wayland display server)
able to keep the X.org server modern by adding extension such as XRandR, XRender and COMPOSITE ... With Wayland we can move the X server and all its legacy...
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XFree86 (category X servers)
fork was the abortive Xouvert, but X.Org Server soon became dominant. Most XFree86 developers also moved to X.Org. While XFree86 was widely used by most...
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full suite of recommended software includes Claws Mail, Firebird database server, KiCad, LibreOffice, Java, Scratch, and Wolfram Mathematica, and additional...
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system. Cygwin/X is free software, licensed under the X11 License. Cygwin/X was originally based on XFree86, but switched to the X.Org Server due to XFree86...
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Mac OS X Server is a series of discontinued Unix-like server operating systems developed by Apple Inc., based on macOS. It provided server functionality...
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Xenocara (category X Window System)
Xenocara is the OpenBSD build infrastructure for the project's customised X.Org Server that utilises a dedicated _x11 user by default to drop privileges and...
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EXA (category X-based libraries)
computing, EXA is a graphics acceleration architecture of the X.Org Server (see also X Window System) designed to replace XAA (the XFree86 Acceleration...
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computers An implementation of the X server for Microsoft Windows; see X.Org Server § Adoption Windows 10, a Microsoft operating system Windows key Windows...
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XQuartz (category X servers)
an open-source version of the X.Org X server, a display server for the X Window System (sometimes shortened to X11 or X) that runs on macOS. In 2012,...
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Xephyr (category X servers)
framebuffer. It is written by Matthew Allum. Xephyr is an X-on-X implementation and runs on X.Org Server and can work with Glamor. Future versions could make...
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Xsun (category X servers)
X.Org Server, Xorg, the open-source software reference implementation of X, based on X11R7. The Xorg server was the most commonly used display server...
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Rocky Linux (redirect from Rockylinux.org)
2021-06-21. Abel, Louis (2021-05-24). "rocky-release code". Rocky Linux GitLab Server. Archived from the original on 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-24. Krill,...
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to identify unknowns Device Dependent X, graphics device drivers supporting 2D acceleration in the X.Org Server DDX (chemistry), a collective name for...
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on what the future of the X Window System in Slackware should be. A month later, he switched from XFree86 to X.Org Server after stating that the opinions...
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Xgl (category X servers)
Novell and first released on January 2, 2006. It was removed from the X.org server in favor of AIGLX on June 12, 2008. Development of Xgl started in 2004...
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Direct Rendering Infrastructure (category Freedesktop.org)
a framebuffer console without a display server running. DRI implementation is scattered through the X Server and its associated client libraries, Mesa...
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Nowadays it is rarely used, however it is still supported by the latest X.org server. SNF fonts had the problem of being platform dependent, therefore they...
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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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Linux (redirect from Linux server)
the X Window System are not capable of working over the network. Several X display servers exist, with the reference implementation, X.Org Server, being...
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MIT License (redirect from X license)
X Window System is the X.Org Server, which is licensed under what is effectively the common MIT license, according to the X.org licensing page: The X...
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commonly the Mesa userspace graphics drivers) a display server (the most common being the X.org Server, or, more recently, a Wayland compositor such as Sway...
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