X-Nico

2 unusual facts about windowing system


Windowing

Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor

Windowing system

Operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS (version 9 and earlier), and Palm OS, contain a windowing system which is integrated with the OS.


Event loop

Events from the windowing system (in X, read off the X socket) are translated by GDK into GTK+ events and emitted as GLib signals on the application's widget objects.

PC1512

They also licensed the GEM windowing system, which supported the customized CGA hardware of the 1512.

Xynth

Xynth is an embedded windowing system, released under LGPL, developed for systems with low resources, is an alternative for X Window System.


see also

CGL

Core OpenGL: Apple Computer's Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the Mac OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification

Jerry Saltzer

Additionally, while technical director of Project Athena, he was supportive of the development of the X Window System, an open windowing system, still used and developed to this day on Linux and UNIX.