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The version of the X Window System most commonly used on GNU/[Linux] operating systems, including [GNOME] and [KDE] desktop environments.
-The current version is 11, and the current release of this version is 6, so you might see things like X11R6.
+The current version of the [X11] protocol
is 11, and the current release of this version is 6, so you might see things like X11R6.
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+See the [XServer] page for background info of the XFree86 and related implementations
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From the X(1) manual page:
The X Consortium requests that the following names be used
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However, many people still refer to the system anyway as "XWindows".
X is responsible for drawing graphics (including text). Without X, you would only have the text mode that is build in to most display adapters (eg what you see when linux is booting up).
XFree86 is a FreeSoftware implementation of the X protocol originally designed for the free [x86] unix operating systems but now supports non-x86 hardware.
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XFree86 version 4.3 (released Feb/Mar 2003) has lots of cool features. Some of the notable ones are:
* ability to configure which keys are used for changing virtual terminals (used to be hard-coded to ctrl+alt+ (F1 - F6) and which keys are used for changing screen resolutions (used to be hard-coded to ctrl+alt+ (KP_+ and KP_-).
* The [Cygwin] port can now run "rootless". This means that you can use Microsoft Windows as your window manager, whereas previously cygwin needed one window and ran all x applications within that single window. This was the biggest advantage that commercial win32 xservers had over the free ones, until now :)
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