Category:X Window System

The X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for computers with raster graphics displays. It is standard on Unix, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and is available for most other modern operating systems.

Because network transparency is a key feature of the X Window System, it is common for graphics applications to execute remotely but display their output locally. An X Window System terminal is a device on which remote programs can display their output. Typically such terminals are connected by ethernet into a local network environment, but they may also support serial connections.