X Window System
What is X Window System?
The X Window System is a network-transparent window system
which runs on a wide range of computing and graphics machines. The X
Window System was originally developed by the MIT X
Consortium. Current X Window System development is done through the X
Consortium. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit
corporation, the successor to the MIT X Consortium, which was part of
the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
How to Use
When you login into the console (physically on the machine) you are
automatically placed in the X Window System.
Occasionally you will find it necessary to rlogin into another
machine and you will want to display the program you are running back
to your machine. This is done by setting the environment variable
DISPLAY to equal your machine name. For example:
% rlogin anothermachine
% setenv DISPLAY yourmachinename:0.0
% run_the_program
If you get a message about not being able to connect to your X Display
or "access denied." Try doing the following in another one of your
windows:
% xhost +
Availability
The X Window System is available on the Suns, SGIs, and IBMs.
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