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Windowing system

In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens. It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for a user interface.

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Display server communications protocols

X Window SystemUnixUnix-likeX.Org ServerLook and feel
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For Unix-like operating systems

81⁄2RioPlan 9HP-UXCMU
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Other

DMGEMIntuitionMicrowindowsMiniGUI
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Application programming interfaceCommunications protocolKernelInput devicesKeyboard
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Display server communications protocols

Windowing systems with APIs

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For Windows NT-family operating systems

Web windowing systems

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Windowing system

Nodes124
Edges123
Triples50
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016129
Components1

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Windowing system

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related to X11 · 13
Windowing system → Athena Widgets, Cygwin/X, Microsoft Windows, Org, Org Server, Other, The, Unix, Unix-like, Window System, X11, XFree86, XQuartz
related to Other · 9
Windowing system → Bell Labs Blit, DMGEMIntuitionMicrowindowsMiniGUIOOHGVisi OnVWS, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, OS, Palm OS, Symbolics Dynamic Windows Some, VAX Workstation Software, XP
related to Technical details · 8
Windowing system → Any, API, Each, For, From, GUI, It, The
related to Quartz Compositor · 2
Windowing system → For Apple's, Quartz Compositor
related to Display server · 1
Windowing system → The

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display server window wayland system windows user manager windowing protocol x11 graphical interface usually desktop clients gui mir also hardware

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window server are also in useinstance ofalthough alternative terms0.80text
a window managerinstance ofIt provides an abstraction of the graphics hardware for use by higher-level elements of the graphical interface0.80text
libinputinstance ofand various other software packages0.80text
PipeWire.Wayland has seen adoption by several open source desktop environmentsinstance ofand various other software packages0.80text
including GNOMEinstance ofand various other software packages0.80text
KDE Plasma which are porting from X11instance ofand various other software packages0.80text
and environments like COSMIC which were written from scratch as Wayland-native environmentsinstance ofand various other software packages0.80text
Westoninstance ofSeveral standalone compositors0.80text
Swayinstance ofSeveral standalone compositors0.80text
Hyprlandinstance ofSeveral standalone compositors0.80text
Wayfireinstance ofSeveral standalone compositors0.80text
niriinstance ofSeveral standalone compositors0.80text

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