Designing user interface tools for the X window system

Author

McGregor, S.

Author_Institution

Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

Feb. 27 1989-March 3 1989

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

246

Abstract

The X Window System provides an architectural substrate that supports graphical windowing interaction among computers and workstations with fundamentally incompatible machine architectures and operating systems. While X supplies a rich set of window-management and networking tools, it stops short of mandating actual user-interface look-and-feel characteristics. A description is given of the basic functionality of the X Window System and how one vendor has undertaken the design of a developer toolkit, layered on top of the X substructure, that can be used for constructing graphical user interfaces.<>

Keywords

multiprogramming; software tools; user interfaces; X Window System; X window system; architectural substrate; developer toolkit; graphical user interfaces; graphical windowing interaction; incompatible machine architectures; networking tools; user interface tools; window-management; Application software; Computer architecture; Displays; Graphics; Network servers; Operating systems; Protocols; User interfaces; Wire; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

COMPCON Spring '89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, Digest of Papers.

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1909-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1989.301935

Filename

301935