The X window system
1986; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1145/22949.24053
ISSN1557-7368
AutoresRobert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys,
Tópico(s)Distributed systems and fault tolerance
ResumoAn overview of the X Window System is presented, focusing on the system substrate and the low-level facilities provided to build applications and to manage the desktop. The system provides high-performance, high-level, device-independent graphics. A hierarchy of resizable, overlapping windows allows a wide variety of application and user interfaces to be built easily. Network-transparent access to the display provides an important degree of functional separation, without significantly affecting performance, which is crucial to building applications for a distributed environment. To a reasonable extent, desktop management can be custom-tailored to individual environments, without modifying the base system and typically without affecting applications.
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