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Windowing system for bitmap displays on UNIX-like systems
The X Window System 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. The X protocol has been at version 11 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: X Window SystemA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Spinal Cord fMRI: A New Window into the Central Nervous SystemInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Unix System V Release 4: Programmer's GuideThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The X window systemCited 557 times
- Go sideways: Windowing systemA closely related topic
- Go sideways: XQuartzA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The X window system
Melanocytes: A Window into the Nervous System
Evaluation of an Active Building Envelope window-system
Electrochromic Dye System for Smart Window Applications
Interior noise control with an active window system
Double window system with ventilation slits to prevent window surface condensation in residential buildings
Augmenting a window system with speech input
The X window system, version 11
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Unix System V Release 4: Programmer's GuideAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1990
X Window System User’s GuideValerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly · 1988
Xlib Programming ManualAdrian Nye · 1988
X Protocol Reference ManualAdrian Nye, Robert W. Scheifler · 1989
X Window SystemRobert W. Scheifler · 1988
The X window systemDouglas A. Young, John A. Pew · 1990
X Window system toolkitPaul J. Asente · 1990
X Window System ProgrammingNabajyoti Barkakati, Nabajyoti Barkakati · 1991
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- XQuartz XQuartz is an open-source version of the X.Org X server, a display server for the X Window System (sometimes shortened to X11 or X) that runs on macOS…
- X.Org Server X.Org Server, often referred to as Xorg, is the free and open-source implementation of the X Window System (X11) display server stewarded by the X.Org…
- X Window System protocols and architecture In computing, the X Window System (commonly: X11, or X) is a network-transparent windowing system for bitmap displays. This article details the protocols…
- Xinerama Xinerama is an extension to the X Window System that enables X applications and window managers to use two or more physical displays as one large virtual…
- X display manager In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer…
- VirtualGL VirtualGL (VGL) is an open-source software package that redirects the 3D rendering commands from Unix and Linux OpenGL applications to 3D accelerator hardware…
- Cygwin/X Cygwin/X is an implementation of the X Window System that runs under Microsoft Windows. It is part of the Cygwin project, and is installed using Cygwin's…