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USENIX
1990
13 years 5 months ago
swm: An X Window Manager Shell
swm is a policy-free, user configurable window manager client for the X Window System. Besides providing basic window manager functionality, swm introduces new features not found ...
Thomas E. LaStrange
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Checkpoints of GUI-based Applications
We describe a new system, called guievict, that enables the graphical user interface (GUI) of any application to be transparently migrated to or replicated on another display with...
Victor C. Zandy, Barton P. Miller
USENIX
2004
13 years 5 months ago
How Xlib Is Implemented (and What We're Doing About It)
The X Window System is the de facto standard graphical environment for Linux and Unix hosts, and is usable on nearly any class of computer one could find today. Its success is par...
Jamey Sharp
USENIX
2001
13 years 5 months ago
The X Resize and Rotate Extension - RandR
The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that...
Jim Gettys, Keith Packard
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Revisiting Display Space Management: Understanding Current Practice to Inform Next-generation Design
Most modern computer systems allow the user to control the space allocated to interfaces through a window system. While much of the understanding of how people interact with windo...
Dugald Ralph Hutchings, John T. Stasko
UIST
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Metisse is not a 3D desktop!
Twenty years after the general adoption of overlapping windows and the desktop metaphor, modern window systems differ mainly in minor details such as window decorations or mouse a...
Olivier Chapuis, Nicolas Roussel