The X Window System

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1986, Pages 79-109

  Scheifler, Robert W ^a   Gettys, Jim ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Virtual terminals; window managers; window systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACES - HUMAN FACTORS; COMPUTER NETWORKS - APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WINDOW SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0022705379     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/22949.24053     Document Type: Article

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