{"id":7579,"date":"2014-06-10T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2014-06-10T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:02:08","slug":"x-windows-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/x-windows-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"XWindows Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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XWindows Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

The XWindow System is a windowing system<\/a> most commonly found on unix or Linux operating systems. On the Mac OS X Linux system this XWindow System may be called X11, or more recently XQuartz.<\/p>\n

At one stage it was more popular (than it is today) to organize workplaces into “banks” of X terminals, or thin clients, only needing to run an X server. Guess this had a transitional feel between the days of Mainframe terminals and the current more modern use of desktops and laptops, at home, and in the workplace.<\/p>\n

It was up to the individual application how it presented when based on an XWindows base, and there is a lot of variety here. We can thank such functionality for the brilliant GIMP<\/a> image editor.<\/p>\n

For today’s tutorial<\/a> we show such XQuartz windows in use in an X11 session on a Mac laptop. Found for this, that once in an xterm session, the list of commands as presented here<\/a> was very interesting, keeping me off the streets for long enough to say “hey, the streets look very clean and neat today” or something like that … man.<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n