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User profile for user: najeebfromgbr
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What is X11 used for ?

I was wondering what X11 program is used for ? It is included in the Launchpad as a program which I have never used.. You help is greatly appreciated.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Apr 17, 2014 10:26 PM

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User profile for user: SilverSkyRat
SilverSkyRat
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Apr 17, 2014 10:57 PM in response to najeebfromgbr

It is a windowing system (GUI) for apps that were written to work in X-Windows.


(Roughly) Just as DOS had Windows as its Graphical User Interface, so Unix has various GUIs, among them X-Windows, & OS X


more info on X11 (Now XQuartz) here:

https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/


An example of an app that only runs with X-Windows environments would be WireShark, a network analyser.

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