x window system

Fluxbox - Why You Might Want to Try It from FOSSwire

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 11/06/2008 - 15:47

Fluxbox is such a window manager for the X Window System. Fluxbox provides you with window management, a taskbar-like window switcher and a basic panel, a right-click menu for launching applications.

It is lightweight and very configurable.


 

Gettys: Time to lead on the desktop

LWN.net  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 08:14

Jim Gettys, one of the original X Window System programmers (among many other things) has put up a lengthy call to the community to take the lead in the design of desktop software.

"Our fundamental advantage we have is the ability to experiment and modify all areas of the stack; from hardware, to the window system, though toolkits to applications.


 

New server for the X Window System

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 06:08

One of the engineers, Red Hat, Kristian Høgsberg, he began to write a new server "iksów for Linux. The aim is to create software that might meet today's needs and to eliminate unnecessary code, which nazbiera? by more than a decade in X.

Org and is now only unnecessary ballast.


 

RE: strengths and weaknesses of X

Topix - Unix  Sat, 10/11/2008 - 16:42

The X Window System is a network-transparent graphical windowing system based on a client/server model.


 

x2x is a Software Alternative to a KVM Switch

Linux Today  Tue, 09/30/2008 - 22:05

Linux.com: "Simply put, x2x takes advantage of the X Window System's ability to run a display over a TCP/IP network.

In this case, you are not running a display as much as you are taking charge of another display's mouse and keyboard."


 

RE[3]: Advanced usage

Topix - Unix  Fri, 09/12/2008 - 17:36

The X Window System is a network-transparent graphical windowing system based on a client/server model.


 

How to Get Help When X Refuses to Start

Linux Today  Fri, 09/12/2008 - 16:32

Echoes: "I'm sure many of us had this problem, and not only once: for some reason or another, the X Window System refuses to start and you get stuck in console.

I remember an event also referred to as the 'Black Ubuntu Day', when an update crashed X.:


 

Please no! Blue screen no...

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 17:58

I just finished reading oa popular magazine a 'interview with Keith Packard, a developer of X Window System.

In a passage of this interview Packard says: "One of the most beautiful features that offer in the coming years will be a blue screen with information about the crash."


 

Remote Application Deployment with NX

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 08/20/2008 - 22:47

The X Window System is a magnificent platform for many uses, but using it to run an application over a slow network is nearly impossible.

This is an introduction to NX, a technology that makes remote applications fly even over commodity internet.


 

For Those Who Care About X (Bits from the X Strike Force)

Debian-News.net  Mon, 08/18/2008 - 00:25

the X Strike Force, as you may know, is the team responsible for the
packages forming the X Window System.

That means the X server, all
video and input device drivers, as well as client libraries and various
client applications.