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What (who) is window system - definition

GRAPHICS CONTROLLER AND NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR UNIX-LIKE SYSTEMS

X Windows; X-windows; X-Windows; X11; X-Window; XWin; X windows; XWindow; X window system; X Window system; Xwindows; X Windowing System; X Window; X11R4; X11R5; X11R6; X11 server; XWindows; X Window desktop; Xterminal; X11R7; X-based; X-Window System; X11 Window System; X11R7.1; X-server; Xwin; X servers; X (window system); X window; X-window; X Consortium; MIT X Consortium; X-Consortium; Xdialog; XWS; X-Server; Draft:X Window System; User:Gimhan Mihiranga/sandbox

window system

Software which allows a workstation's screen to be divided into rectangular areas which act like a separate input/output devices under the control of different application programs. This gives the user the ability to see the output of several processes at once and to choose which one will receive input by selecting its window, usually by pointing at it with a mouse. Examples are the X Window System, and proprietary systems on the Macintosh and NeXT, NeWS on Suns and RISC OS on the Archimedes. See also WIMP.

X Window System

<operating system, graphics> A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. 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 client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients 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 Unix 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. http://x.org/. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86. Usenet 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)

Network extensible Window System

DISCONTINUED WINDOWING SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY SUN MICROSYSTEMS

Network extensible Window System; The NeWS Toolkit

(NeWS) An elegant PostScript-based windowing environment, invented by James Gosling, the author of GOSMACS. NeWS would almost certainly have won the standards war with the X Window System if it hadn't been proprietary to {Sun Microsystems}. There is a lesson here that too many software vendors haven't yet heeded. Communication is based on PostScript and server functions can be extended. See also HyperNeWS, OpenWindows. (1994-12-12)

Wikipedia

X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the display device and interacting with a mouse and keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface – this is handled by individual programs. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces.

X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. The X protocol has been at version 11 (hence "X11") since September 1987. The X.Org Foundation leads the X project, with the current reference implementation, X.Org Server, available as free and open-source software under the MIT License and similar permissive licenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X Window System

Examples of use of window system

1. Tkachyov stressed the need to meet investors halfway, pointing to the introduction in his region of a "one–window system" to simplify planning procedures to prove his point.

2. He further said that in order to woo industrialists, the state has introduced the concept of "one table" instead of single window system to facilitate smooth investment.