Guide to X11
by Steve Ambler, et al.
Publisher: Wikibooks 2010
Description:
This book is about the X Window System. Some users describe it as the Unix and Linux graphics drivers. X11 is the graphical environment for most Unix or Unix-like systems, including *BSD and GNU/Linux; it provides access to screen, keyboard, and mouse.
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