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rolicac4tbos rolrolol trocerta orbocdeldomc rolvardarl monora copasalcn X Window System servers run on computers with bitmap displays. The server distributes user input to and accepts output requests from various client programs through a variety of different interprocess communication channels. Although the most common case is for the client programs to be running on the same machine as the server, clients can be run transparently from other machines (including machines with different architectures and operating systems) as well. X supports overlapping hierarchical subwindows and text and graphics operations, on both monochrome and color displays. For a full explanation of the functions that are available, see the Xlib - C Language X Interface manual, the X Window System Protocol specification, the X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface manual, and various toolkit documents.
The number of programs that use X is quite large. Programs provided in the core X Consortium distribution include: a terminal emulator, xterm; a window manager, twm; a display manager, xdm; a console redirect program, xconsole; a mail interface, xmh; a bitmap editor, bitmap; resource listing/manipulation tools, appres, editres; access control programs, xauth, xhost, and iceauth; user preference setting programs, xrdb, xcmsdb, xset, xsetroot, xstdcmap, and xmodmap; clocks, xclock and oclock; a font displayer, (xfd; utilities for listing information about fonts, windows, and displays, xlsfonts, xwininfo, xlsclients, xdpyinfo, xlsatoms, and xprop; screen image manipulation utilities, xwd, xwud, and xmag; a performance measurement utility, x11perf; a font compiler, bdftopcf; a font server and related utilities, xfs, fsinfo, fslsfonts, fstobdf; an X Image Extension exerciser, xieperf; a display server and related utilities, Xserver, rgb, mkfontdir; remote execution utilities, rstart and xon; a clipboard manager, xclipboard; keyboard description compiler and related utilities, xkbcomp, xkbprint, xkbbell, xkbevd, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch; a utility to terminate clients, xkill; an optimized X protocol proxy, lbxproxy; a firewall security proxy, xfwp; a proxy manager to control them, proxymngr; a utility to find proxies, xfindproxy; Netscape Navigator Plug-ins, libxrx.so and libxrxnest.so; an RX MIME-type helper program, xrx; and a utility to cause part or all of the screen to be redrawn, xrefresh.
Many other utilities, window managers, games, toolkits, etc. are included as user-contributed software in the X Consortium distribution, or are available using anonymous ftp on the Internet. See your site administrator for details.
See xfree86
