XWindows Primer Tutorial
The XWindow System is a windowing system 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.
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.
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 image editor.
For today’s tutorial 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 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.
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