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A 'windowing system' (or 'window system') is a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as one of its primary metaphors. It is normally one part of a larger desktop environment.
From a programmer's point of view, a windowing system implements graphical primitives such as rendering fonts or drawing a line on the screen, effectively providing an abstraction of the graphics hardware.
A windowing system enables the computer user to work with several programs at the same time. Each program runs in its own window, which is an area of the screen, typically a rectangle. Most windowing systems allow windows to overlap, and provide means for the user to perform standard operations such as moving/resizing a window, sending a window to the foreground/background and minimizing/maximizing a window.
Some windowing systems, like the X Window System, have advanced capabilities such as network transparency, allowing the user to display graphical applications running on a remote machine. Further, the X Window System does not implement any specific policy regarding the look and feel of the graphical user interfaces, leaving that to the X window managers, widget toolkits and desktop environments.
★ 8½ and rio for Plan 9
★ Fresco/Berlin
★ FBUI
★ ManaGeR (MGR)
★ Metisse
★ Qtopia
★ Quartz Compositor integrated into Mac OS X
★ Twin (Text WINdows)
★ X Window System (free-software, de-facto standard on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems)
★ Xynth
★ Y Window System
★ DM
★ GEM
★ Intuition
★ NeWS / XNeWS
★ NeXT DPS
★ Microwindows
★ MiniGUI
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. Windows Vista integrates the Desktop Window Manager.
Web windowing systems
★ Dojo
★ TIBCO General Interface an open source Ajax Rich Internet Application Toolkit with more than 100 components for making Ajax apps with the paradigms of a windowing system's GUI
★ WebWM, Web Window Manager
★ History of the graphical user interface
★ Widget toolkit
★ Desktop environment
From a programmer's point of view, a windowing system implements graphical primitives such as rendering fonts or drawing a line on the screen, effectively providing an abstraction of the graphics hardware.
A windowing system enables the computer user to work with several programs at the same time. Each program runs in its own window, which is an area of the screen, typically a rectangle. Most windowing systems allow windows to overlap, and provide means for the user to perform standard operations such as moving/resizing a window, sending a window to the foreground/background and minimizing/maximizing a window.
Some windowing systems, like the X Window System, have advanced capabilities such as network transparency, allowing the user to display graphical applications running on a remote machine. Further, the X Window System does not implement any specific policy regarding the look and feel of the graphical user interfaces, leaving that to the X window managers, widget toolkits and desktop environments.
| Contents |
| List of windowing systems |
| POSIX-compatible windowing systems |
| Other |
| See also |
List of windowing systems
POSIX-compatible windowing systems
★ 8½ and rio for Plan 9
★ Fresco/Berlin
★ FBUI
★ ManaGeR (MGR)
★ Metisse
★ Qtopia
★ Quartz Compositor integrated into Mac OS X
★ Twin (Text WINdows)
★ X Window System (free-software, de-facto standard on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems)
★ Xynth
★ Y Window System
Other
★ DM
★ GEM
★ Intuition
★ NeWS / XNeWS
★ NeXT DPS
★ Microwindows
★ MiniGUI
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. Windows Vista integrates the Desktop Window Manager.
Web windowing systems
★ Dojo
★ TIBCO General Interface an open source Ajax Rich Internet Application Toolkit with more than 100 components for making Ajax apps with the paradigms of a windowing system's GUI
★ WebWM, Web Window Manager
See also
★ History of the graphical user interface
★ Widget toolkit
★ Desktop environment
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