| X Window System A specification for device-independent windowing operations on devices, developed initially by 's Project and now a supported by the . X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a protocol, the . The server is the computer or with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are . Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over via protocols. This is confusing because often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. {Home (http://www.x.org/)}. See also , , , . newsgroups: {news:comp.windows.x}, {news:comp.x}, {news:comp.windows.x.apps}, {news:comp.windows.x.intrinsics}, {news:comp.windows.x.announce}, {news:comp.sources.x}, {news:comp.windows.x.motif}, {news:comp.windows.x.pex}. (1999-04-02) |
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