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The X window system
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An 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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- Authors
- Scheifler, R. W., & Gettys, J.
- Venue
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Published
- 1986-04
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 79-109
- ISSN
- 0730-0301 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7368
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- W2053978297
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- 926
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- 55.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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