What XFree86 does, is provide a client/server interface between the display hardware (those physical things like the mouse, keyboard, and video displays) and the desktop environment, (this is typically called a window manager as it deals with how X is displayed i.e. the overall appearance). Yet X goes beyond that and also gives the infrastructure and a standardized application interface (API).

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Wine HQ

Friday, April 13, 2007

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Wind

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Window Managers for X

Sunday, April 08, 2007

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The Official FVWM Home Page

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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X Window System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, September 02, 2006

In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) provides windowing for bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol to build graphical user interfaces (GUI) on Unix, Unix-like operating systems, and OpenVMS – almost all modern op

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10kloc.org - 10000 lines of code

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

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X Selections, X Cut Buffers, and Emacs Kill Rings

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

This document began as a description of how Emacs and XEmacs deal with copying and pasting text under X11. However, I've noticed that a lot of people are being referred here to answer more general questions of how copying and pasting work under X, or, mor

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XGL - next generation X server

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Until now, x.org and other X-servers could not universally handle hardware-accelerated transparency and transformation as with Mac OS. There exist some extensions for x.org ...

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