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The X Window System (X11, or simply X; stylized 𝕏) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. [3] The X protocol has been at version 11 (hence "X11") since September 1987.
A desktop environment is a collection of software designed to give functionality and a certain look and feel to an operating system. This article applies to operating systems which are capable of running the X Window System, mostly Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Minix, illumos, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. [1 ...
The X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for computers with bitmap displays. It is standard on Unix, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and is available for most other modern operating systems. This category is for free software that is part of the X window system not applications thereof, see Category:X Window ...
freedesktop.org (fd.o), formerly X Desktop Group (XDG), [1] [2] is a project to work on interoperability and shared base technology for free-software desktop environments for the X Window System (X11) and Wayland on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Although freedesktop.org produces specifications for interoperability, it is not a ...
In computing, Nano-X is a windowing system which is full featured enough to be used on a PC, an embedded system [1] [2] or a PDA. [3] [4] It is an open source project aimed at bringing the features of modern graphical windowing environments to smaller devices and platforms.
Blackbox 0.7 Xsession running on Debian 7 Linux. Blackbox is a free and open-source stacking window manager for the X Window System. [5] [6] Blackbox has specific design goals, and some functionality is provided only through other applications. One example is the bbkeys hotkey application.
ROX-Filer is a graphical spatial file manager for the X Window System. It can be used on its own as a file manager, or can be used as part of ROX Desktop. It is the file manager provided by default in certain Linux distributions such as Puppy Linux and Dyne:bolic, and was used in Xubuntu until Thunar became stable. ROX-Filer is built using the ...
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System. It was originally written for Unix-like operating systems on IBM PC compatibles and was available for many other operating systems and platforms. It is free and open source software under the XFree86 License version 1.1. It was developed by the XFree86 Project, Inc.