X Window System

Also known as X11, X Window, X Windows

graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems

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The X Window System is software that lets computers running UNIX-like systems display graphics on screens and communicate these graphics over a network. It matters because it standardized how different computers can share graphical displays and interact with each other across networks, which became foundational to how Unix systems handle visual computing.

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Within Vinony's link graph, X Window System is referenced by 980 other articles, and connects out to X.Org Foundation, X.Org Server and Wayland.

It sits within the topics Massachusetts Institute of Technology software, Open Group standards and Remote desktop.

Its subject is documented across 52 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: windowing system
Named after: W Window System
Follows: W Window System
Developer: Keith Packard
Platform: cross-platform software
Official website: x.org
Image: X-Window-System.png

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publication date: 1984-00-00
Commons category: X Window System
topic's main category: Category:X Window System
software version identifier: X11R3
copyright license: MIT License
Stack Exchange tag: unix.stackexchange.com/tags/x11
name in kana: エックスウィンドウシステム
inception: 1982-00-00
replaces: W Window System
source code repository URL: gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg

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Article · Polski

X Window System – system okien, czyli komponent graficznego interfejsu użytkownika, stworzony w latach 80. XX wieku w laboratoriach Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Obecnie prace nadzoruje X.Org Foundation, a najnowszym wydaniem jest wersja 11. Często oprócz X Window System stosuje się też nazwę X, X11, X11R6 (dla implementacji X.Org w wersjach 6) lub X11R7. Nazwa X Windows (poprzez analogię do Microsoft Windows), chociaż rozpowszechniona, jest niepoprawna. Najpopularniejszymi implementacjami X Window System są X.Org oraz XFree86.

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