X Window System

CVS  () [+/-] In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS; and almost all modern operating systems support it. X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and keyboard. X does not manda ...

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• X Window System - The X client-server model and network transparency
• X Window System - Design principles of X
• X Window System - User interfaces
• X Window System - Implementations
• X Window System - X terminals
• X Window System - Limitations and criticisms of X
• X Window System - Video hardware
• X Window System - User interface features
• X Window System - Network
• X Window System - Competitors to X
• X Window System - History
• X Window System - Predecessors
• X Window System - Origin and early development
• X Window System - The MIT X Consortium and the X Consortium Inc.
• X Window System - The Open Group
• X Window System - X.Org and XFree86
• X Window System - The X.Org Foundation
• X Window System - Future directions
• X Window System - Nomenclature
• X Window System - Release history

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X Window System - Predecessors. Several bitmap display systems preceded X. From Xerox came the Alto (1973) and the Star (1981). From Apple came the Lisa (1983) and the Macintosh (1984). In the Unix world there was the Andrew Project (1982) and Rob Pike's Blit terminal (1984). X derives its name as a successor to a pre-1983 window system called W (the letter X directly following W in the Latin alphabet). W ran under the V operating system. W used a network protocol supporting terminal and graphics windows, the server maintaining display lists. X Window Sy ...

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X Window System, X Window System - The X client-server model and network transparency, X Window System - Design principles of X, X Window System - User interfaces, X Window System - Implementations, X Window System - X terminals, X Window System - Limitations and criticisms of X, X Window System - Video hardware, X Window System - User interface features, X Window System - Network, X Window System - Competitors to X, X Window System - History, X Window System - Predecessors, X Window System - Origin and early development, X Window System - The MIT X Consortium and the X Consortium Inc., X Window System - The Open Group, X Window System - X.Org and XFree86, X Window System - The X.Org Foundation, X Window System - Future directions, X Window System - Nomenclature, X Window System - Release history

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X Window System - Predecessors. Several bitmap display systems preceded X. From Xerox came the Alto (1973) and the Star (1981). From Apple came the Lisa (1983) and the Macintosh (1984). The Unix world had the Andrew Project (1982) and Rob Pike's Blit terminal (1984). X derives its name as a successor to a pre-1983 window system called W (the letter X directly following W in the Latin alphabet). W Window System ran under the V operating system. W used a network protocol supporting terminal and graphics windows, the server maintaining display lists. X Window Sy ...

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X Window System, X Window System - The X client-server model and network transparency, X Window System - Design principles of X, X Window System - User interfaces, X Window System - Implementations, X Window System - X terminals, X Window System - Limitations and criticisms of X, X Window System - Video hardware, X Window System - User interface features, X Window System - Network, X Window System - Competitors to X, X Window System - History, X Window System - Predecessors, X Window System - Origin and early development, X Window System - The MIT X Consortium and the X Consortium Inc., X Window System - The Open Group, X Window System - X.Org and XFree86, X Window System - The X.Org Foundation, X Window System - Future directions, X Window System - Nomenclature, X Window System - Release history

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Pistis Sophia An important treatise on Gnostic teachings, discovered in a Coptic manuscript in the British Museum by the Orientalist Schwartze, who rendered it into Latin and published the original text and his translation in 1851. It was translated into English by G. R. S. Mead and annotated by Blavatsky.

The original version contains many Greek technical terms having no Coptic equivalents and preserved also in the later translations. The tile itself is two such words, the names of two principal Aeons in the Gnostic system. Sophia means wisdom, enlightenment; pistis means intuitive trust, firm belief based on inner conviction, ardent devotion, that quality in the disciple which corresponds to the heart, as wisdom relates to his understanding -- rather than merely faith.

As the opening verses show, these are the esoteric teachings said in the treatise itself to have been given by Jesus to his disciples, when he was rising from the dead and teaching them for eleven years. This means that the teacher had passed eleven degrees of initiation, awaiting only the final degree. The work is a highly veiled version of some of the teachings of the archaic wisdom; it quotes abundantly from the Book of Enoch, and the doctrines of the Upanishads have, at least in degree, passed into it.

(See also: Pistis Sophia , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Computer display - Technologies. As with television, several different hardware technologies exist for displaying computer-generated output: Cathode ray tube (CRT) Liquid crystal display (LCD). [LCD-based monitors can receive television and computer protocols (SVGA, PAL, SECAM; NTSC).) Plasma display Video projector A modern CRT display has considerable flexibility: it can often handle a range of resolutions from 640 by 480 pixels (640×480) up to 2048 by 1536 pixels (2048×1536), with ...

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Computer display, Computer display - Hardware, Computer display - Technologies, Computer display - History, Computer display - Major manufacturers, Computer display - Configuration and usage, Computer display - Multi-head, Computer display - Virtual displays

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Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Platforms etc.. BSD GNOME KDE Linux Mac OS X Microsoft Windows X Window System Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Licensing. Open source software Free software ...

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Comparison of bitmap graphics editors, Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Additional Information, Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Key to icons, Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Platforms etc., Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Licensing

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A command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with a computer. Commands are entered as lines of text (that is, sequences of typed characters) from a keyboard, and output is also received as text. CLIs originated when teletype machines were connected to computers in the 1950s. In terms of immediate interaction and feedback, they represented an advance over the use of punch cards. With the use of CRTs as interface devices, CLIs began evolving toward graphical user interfaces (GUIs) like Microsoft Windows, Mac ...

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A window is a visual area, usually rectangular in shape, containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes. Windows are primarily associated with graphical displays, where they can be manipulated with a pointer. However, many programs with text user interfaces, for example Emacs, allow their display to be divided into areas whic ...

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• Window computing - Types of windows

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An X window manager is software that controls the placement and appearance of windows under the X Window System, a graphical user interface mainly used on Unix-like systems. Unlike the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms, which have historically provided a vendor-controlled, fixed set of ways to control how windows and panes display on a screen, and how the user may interact with them, window management for the X Window System was an afterthought. The user can choose between various third-party window managers, whic ...

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• X window manager - How window managers work
• X window manager - Popular window managers for X
• X window manager - Other window managers for X

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X11.app is Apple Computer's implementation of the X Window System for Mac OS X. Apple's implementation of X11 is based on XFree86 and adds support for hardware accelerated 2D graphics, hardware OpenGL acceleration and integration with Aqua, the Mac OS X graphical user interface (GUI). X11.app was initially available as a downloadable public beta for Mac OS X v10.2 and has been included as a standard package since Mac OS X v10.3. The source code for X11.app is available from Ap ...

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XV can mean: the number fifteen (15) in Roman numerals X video extension to the X Window System the Xv shareware image display and manipulation program for Unix Category: Lists of two-letter combinations Other related archivesLists of two-letter combinations, Roman numerals, Unix, X Window System, X video extension, Xv, fifteen, image, program, shareware

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In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every X11 installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/rgb.txt. It is not known who originally compiled the list. The list shows neither a continuity in selected color values nor in color names (for example, darkgray but lightgrey), and many color triplets have multiple names. Despite this, graphic designers and others got used to them making it practically impossible ...

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• X11 color names - Chart

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Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Additional Information. All prices are in USD for full versions. List of bitmap graphics editors, Bitmap graphics editor, Raster graphics aka Bitmap, Vector editors versus bitmap editors Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Key to icons. Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Platforms etc.. BSD GNOME KDE Linux Mac OS X Micr ...

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• Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Additional Information
• Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Key to icons
• Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Platforms etc.
• Comparison of bitmap graphics editors - Licensing

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.BMP or .DIB (device-independent bitmap) is a bitmapped graphics format used internally by the Microsoft Windows graphics subsystem (GDI), and used commonly as a simple graphics file format on that platform. Images are generally stored with a color depth of 2 (1-bit), 16 (4-bit), 256 (8-bit), 65,536 (16-bit), or 16.7 million (24-bit). 8-bit images can also be greyscale instead of indexed color. An alpha channel (for transparency) may be stored in a separate file, where it is similar to a greyscale image. A 32-bit ...

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Intrinsics (also know as Xt, for X toolkit) is a library used in the X Window System. More precisely, it is a library that uses the low-level Xlib library and provides a friendly (object-oriented-looking) API to develop X11 software with graphical widgets. It can be used while programming in the C or C++ languages. The low level Xlib library provides functions for interacting with an X11 server, but does not provide any function for implementing the graphical objects used in GUIs, such as buttons, menus, etc. Such object ...

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Copyleft describes a group of licenses applied to works such as software, documents, music, and art. Where copyright law is seen by the original proponents of copyleft as a way to restrict the right to make and redistribute copies of a particular work, a copyleft license uses copyright law in order to ensure that every person who receives a copy or derived version of a work, can use, modify, and also redistribute both the work, and derived versions of the work. Thus, in a non-lega ...

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• Copyleft - History
• Copyleft - Methods for copylefting
• Copyleft - Etymology
• Copyleft - Types of copyleft and relation to other licenses
• Copyleft - Copylefted and non-copylefted open source software
• Copyleft - Strong and weak copyleft
• Copyleft - Full and partial copyleft
• Copyleft - Share-alike
• Copyleft - The ideology
• Copyleft - Is copyleft viral?
• Copyleft - Copyleft applied outside the context of copyright licensing for software
• Copyleft - Art — documents
• Copyleft - Patents
• Copyleft - Commercial exploitation of copylefted creations
• Copyleft - Development of copylefted industrial products
• Copyleft - Commercialization of copylefted industrial products
• Copyleft - Commercialization of copylefted art
• Copyleft - Sale of copylefted art

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The W Window System is a graphical windowing system and precursor in name and concept to the modern X Window System. W was originally developed at Stanford University by Paul Asente and Brian Reid, and originally ran under V. In 1983, Paul Asente and Chris Kent ported the system to UNIX on the VS100, giving a copy to those working at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. In 1984, Bob Scheifler of MIT replaced the synchronous protocol of W wi ...

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• W Window System - External link

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The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a microkernel operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University in the 1980s, led primarily by Prof. David Cheriton. V was the successor to the Thoth and Verax operating systems that Cheriton had worked on previously. The original V terminology uses "process" for what is now commonly called a "thread", and "team" for what is now commonly called a "process" consisting of multiple threads sharing an address spac ...

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In computing, copy-and-paste is a popular, simple method of reproducing text or other data from a source to a destination. Copying can be performed on most graphical user interface systems using the key combinations Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Ins (the former being more widely supported), or by using some other method, such as a context menu or a toolbar button. Once data have been copied into the area of memory referred to as the clipboard, they can be pasted into a destination using the key combinations Ctrl+V or Shift+Inser ...

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A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device used for entering data into, and displaying data from, a computer or a computing system. Computer terminal - Historical. Early user terminals connected to computers were generally electromechanical teleprinters (TTYs), such as the model 33 Teletype. However these were too slow for most production uses. By the early 1970s, many in the computer industry realized that an affordable video data entry terminal could supplant the then ubiqui ...

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• Computer terminal - Historical
• Computer terminal - Graphical terminals
• Computer terminal - Contemporary
• Computer terminal - Technical discussion

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