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Explore Stack InternalX11, aka X11R6 (XX.org Foundation Windowing System Version 11 release 6) is basically used by other desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, among many others, to provide the abstract interface to managing a GUI. Without relying on X, KDE/GNOME/others would have to write the code to do low-level coding things themselves. Instead, KDE/GNOME communicate back and forth with X (it runs as a server process that 'clients' connect to).
X11, aka X11R6 (X.org Foundation Windowing System Version 11 release 6) is basically used by other desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, among many others, to provide the abstract interface to managing a GUI. Without relying on X, KDE/GNOME/others would have to write the code to do low-level coding things themselves. Instead, KDE/GNOME communicate back and forth with X (it runs as a server process that 'clients' connect to).
X11, aka X.org Foundation Windowing is basically used by other desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, among many others, to provide the abstract interface to managing a GUI. Without relying on X, KDE/GNOME/others would have to write the code to do low-level coding things themselves. Instead, KDE/GNOME communicate back and forth with X (it runs as a server process that 'clients' connect to).
X11, aka X11R6 (X.org Foundation Windowing System Version 11 release 6) is basically used by other desktop environments like KDE and GNOME, among many others, to provide the abstract interface to managing a GUI. Without relying on X, KDE/GNOME/others would have to write the code to do low-level coding things themselves. Instead, KDE/GNOME communicate back and forth with X (it runs as a server process that 'clients' connect to).
