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The contents of the Display server page were merged into Windowing system on 23 February 2021. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
"A windowing system enables the computer user to work with several programs at the same time."
How is the graphics hardware abstracted and virtualized by the windowing system? It seems to me like a mystery, especially in cases when one window content is drawn with OpenGL and others in standard 2D mode at the same time. And how is the access to the video memory managed? Some clients may access it directly, and the others? ... shared memory and the windowing system copies their content to video memory?
I'd be happy if somebody could elaborate or point me to some helpful documentation or literature on that matter.
Does that mean Android linux kernel doesnt support application windows? Sen4u nav (talk) 04:36, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I've cleaned up the list a bit. I removed all the comments when the item is linked to an article anyway, some of these comments read like advertising blurbs. I left all the acronym expansions.—Graf Bobby (talk) 22:30, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
The list of windowing systems for Windows NT-family operating systems is wrong. Except for DWM, these are shell enhancements, not windowing systems in the same class as what X11 is to Unix. 107.205.135.122 (talk) 02:11, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
Guys it's not windowing system, it is Operating system. Windows is a name of a company which produces OS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by V rocks the World (talk • contribs) 22:45, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Proposal to merge Display server and Window system, given that much of the content overlaps. While technically separate most window systems are implemented as display/window servers, indeed the list of windowing systems on this article lists display servers. My personal recommendation would be to have a 'Display server' subsection in the Windowing system article. While the trend on Wikipedia is to have separate articles for technically separate terminology, I beleive Display server fails WP:Notability. Added Merge templates to both articles. 104.228.101.152 (talk) 16:27, 22 January 2020 (UTC)