In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) provides windowing for bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUI) on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS - almost all modern operating systems support it.
X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and/or keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface — individual client programs handle this. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces.
X features network transparency: the machine where application programs (the client applications) run can differ from the user's local machine (the display server). X's usage of the terms "client" and "server" reverses what people often expect, in that "server" refers to the user's local display ("display server") rather than to a remote machine.
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XFree86 - X implementation for Intel x86-based platforms.
Broadway Project - Running X Window over WWW.
Freedesktop.org - A free software project to work on interoperability and shared technology for desktop environments for the X Window System.
Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) - Atoms, selections, cut buffers, window manager communication, session management, sharing resources, colors.
Keith Packard - Papers and Talks - X Window related papers and talks.
New Rendering Model for X - By Keith Packard. Article on current limits and future development of X Windows. [PDF]
Open Group Desktop Technologies (X.Org) - Official distribution of X11.
SiS/XGI graphics chipsets and X.org/XFree86/Linux - Complete description of driver options, configuration issues and download links.
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The X Window System - A set of Chris Browne's web pages on the technologies of X and related graphical systems.
UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ - All you need to know to use Unicode/UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.
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What is X / X Server / XFree86 - At The Linux Revolution. Information on X / X Server / XFree86. Gain a little knowledge on the graphical interface for Linux.
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X on TV - How to set up XFree86 for a TV.
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X Window System and Motif WWW Sites - List of over 600 technically-oriented X Window sites: X Consortium, Motif, X Advisor magazine, major X technologies, CDE, internationalization, FAQs, on-line technical papers, on-line tutorials, X for PCs and Linux, and general human-computer interaction.
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X-Window Architecture - This article want to explain what is the X-Window client/server architecture and to take advantage of it.
X11/Graphics - Holds graphics X11 programs and libraries. These include programs for the manipulation or conversion of graphics (bitmaps in particular).
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XDM ThemeStuff - A set of scripts to make Theming the XDM (X Display Manager) easier.
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XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini-HOWTO - How to fix ugly, tiny and unreadable fonts in XFree86.
Xprint - A X11-based print system and API which enables X11 applications to use devices like printers, FAX or create documents in formats like PostScript, PDF, PCL.
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