NET 4000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4.1.2: Runlevel, Graphical User Interface, Desktop Environment
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The x window system provides the graphical user interface (gui) on linux systems. It is a modular system that gives administrators control over each component. The x window system is made up of the following components: The x server is the main component of the x window system. Manages input devices such as the mouse and keyboard and controls output to monitors and printers. Is networked, which means its output can be displayed locally or sent over the network to other computers. Uses the display environment variable to control where the output is sent. Setting display to 0:0 will send the x server output to the monitor on the local system. X. org (also known as x11) is the most commonly used x server in modern linux distributions. Xfree86 is an earlier x server implementation that was used by default in most linux distributions up until 2005.
