X-Window

Commonly abbreviated as X, X-window or XWindow is a graphics system that began development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984 for Unix workstations. To get into X-Window from the command line type startx otherwise computers with X-Window system installed will automatically start or prompt the user with the availability when the computer first boots.

• See the x command page for further information about this command.

Also see: BDF, GUI, Operating system definitions