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2 days ago · The X Window System, also referred to as X or X11, is a fundamental windowing system designed for Unix and Linux operating systems. With X, users can effortlessly work with multiple windows simultaneously, each dedicated to a distinct task.
3 days ago · David Rosenthal looks back at 40 years of the X Window System: A major reason for Sun's early success was that they in effect open-sourced the Network File System. X11 was open source under the MIT license. I, and some of the other Sun engineers, understood that NeWS could not displace X11 as the Unix standard window system without being ...
2 days ago · Once at Sun I realized that it was more important for the company that the Unix world standardized on a single window system than that the standard be Sun’s NeWS system. At C-MU I had already looked into X as an alternative to the Andrew window system, so I knew it was the obvious alternative to NeWS. Although most of my time was spent ...
4 days ago · Once at Sun I realized that it was more important for the company that the Unix world standardized on a single window system than that the standard be Sun's NeWS system. At C-MU I had already looked into X as an alternative to the Andrew window system, so I knew it was the obvious alternative to NeWS.
6 days ago · In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It was traditionally shipped with every X11 installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/X11/rgb.txt. The web colors list is descended from it but differs for certain color names.
1 day ago · It describes protocols that X clients must use to communicate with each other via the X server, including diverse topics like window management, selections, keyboard and colormap focus, and session management. Source: DSHR’s Blog: X Window System At 40. X11 is important, even if it’s being displaced by Wayland
4 days ago · Plain text display program for the X Window System (mirrored from https://gitla... krh: 5 months: summary log tree: xorg/app/xoo: Xoo is a GTK+ based graphical wrapper around a ‘windowed’ X Server such as X... root: 12 years: summary log tree: xorg/app/xphelloworld: Xprint sample applications (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org ...
