<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >X Window System Architecture Overview HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Preface" HREF="preface.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >X Window System Architecture Overview HOWTO</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Daniel Manrique</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" >roadmr@entropia.com.mx </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-05-22</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dm</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Some grammatical corrections, pointed out by Bill Staehle</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-05-20</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: dm</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial LDP release.</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN21" ></A ><P ></P ><P >This document provides an overview of the X Window System's architecture, give a better understanding of its design, which components integrate with X and fit together to provide a working graphical environment and what choices are there regarding such components as window managers, toolkits and widget libraries, and desktop environments.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="preface.html" >Preface</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="introduction.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="arch-overview.html" >The X Window System Architecture: overview</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="window-managers.html" >Window Managers</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="client-applications.html" >Client Applications</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="toolkits.html" >Widget Libraries or toolkits</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="so-far.html" >What we have so far</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="desktop-environments.html" >Desktop environments to the rescue</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="specific-desktop-environments.html" >Specific Desktop Environments</A ></DT ><DT >10. <A HREF="fit-together.html" >How it all fits together</A ></DT ><DT >11. <A HREF="a-day.html" >A day in the life of an X system</A ></DT ><DT >12. <A HREF="copyright.html" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preface.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Preface</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >