{"id":254,"date":"2018-08-15T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/x-window-system\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T23:10:11","slug":"x-window-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/x-window-system\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Window System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X-Window System is what makes everything appear so friendly on the screen in LINUX.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><br \/>\nThe X-window system is a system-level application, or rather, a process that handles the display in Linux. Basically, what you see on your screen is coming from X. X-&#8220;talks&#8221; to the graphics display device (the graphics processor) and tells it what to display. As X interacts with the hardware at basic level, programmers need not be bothered about giving instructions to the video card for any display (mind you, the GUI taxes a system heavily). With the difficult job being taken care of, programmers only need to give instructions to X saying &#8220;move window 1 to position x&#8221; or &#8220;minimize window 2&#8221; or &#8220;refresh window 3 every 5 seconds&#8221;. The X concept came about when a GUI for UNIX was being worked out. It was released in 1984 by the &#8220;Athena Project&#8221;, an academic project undertaken at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was taken over in 1998 by a the X Consortium, which has been maintaining the standards for X ever since. The X specifications are freely available for further development, and Linux developers adopt these specifications and called it the Xfree86. Xfree86, like its base-the X-is very versatile, with various options that developers can use to make different windows (or apps) display differently. X follows a client-server architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Window System is what makes everything appear so friendly on the screen in LINUX. The X-window system is a system-level application, or rather, a process that handles the display in Linux. Basically, what you see on your screen is coming from X. X-&#8220;talks&#8221; to the graphics display device (the graphics processor) and tells it what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myzips.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}