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Software that manages separately different parts of display screens
Typical elements of a window. The window decoration is either drawn by the window manager or by the client. The drawing of the content is the task of the client.
In computing, a windowing system (or window system) is a software suite that manages separately different parts of display screens.[1] It is a type of graphical user interface (GUI) which implements the WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm for a user interface.
Each currently running application is assigned a usually resizable and usually rectangular surface of the display to present its GUI to the user; these windows may overlap each other, as opposed to a tiling interface where they are not allowed to overlap. Usually a window decoration is drawn around each window. The programming of both the window decoration and of available widgets inside of the window, which are graphical elements for direct user interaction, such as sliders, buttons, etc., is eased and simplified through the use of widget toolkits.
^Kent, Allen; Williams, James G. (1996-10-11). Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 19 - Truth Maintenance Systems to Visual Display Quality. CRC Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780824727178. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
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rendering engine. This engine can be specific to a certain operating system or windowingsystem or contain back-ends to interface with multiple ones and also...
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pointing device. A window manager facilitates the interactions between windows, applications, and the windowingsystem. The windowingsystem handles hardware...
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well-supported. (A standalone NeWS windowingsystem was also available for a time, but was never the primary SunOS windowing environment.) Starting with SunOS...
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to OpenGL, as well as WGL, which is the Microsoft Windows interface to OpenGL. All windowingsystem interfaces to OpenGL arose out of the migration of...
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