Appendix A: X Reference Page
SynopsisThe X Window System is a
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:
•X
•X Window System
•X Version 11
•X Window System, Version 11
•X11
X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Description
X Window System servers run on computers with
X supports overlapping hierarchical subwindows and text and graphics operations, on both monochrome and color displays. For a full explanation of the functions that are available, refer to:
•Xlib - C Language X Interface,
•The X Window System Protocol specification,
•X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface, and
•The various Toolkit documents.
The number of programs that use X is quite large. Programs provided in the core MIT distribution include: a terminal emulator (xterm), a window manager (twm), a display manager (xdm), a console redirect program (xconsole), mail managing utilities (xmh and xbiff), a manual page browser (xman), a bitmap editor (bitmap), a resource editor (editres), a ditroff previewer (xditview), access control programs (xauth and xhost), user preference setting programs (xrdb, xcmsdb, xset, xsetroot, xstdcmap, and xmodmap), a load monitor (xload), clocks (xclock and oclock), a font displayer (xfd), utilities for listing information about fonts, windows, and displays (xlsfonts, xfontsel, xwininfo, xlsclients, xdpyinfo,
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