- Y Window System
Infobox Software
name = Y Window System
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developer = Mark Thomas
latest_release_version = 0.2
latest_release_date =February 21 st,2004
operating_system = Any SDL compatible OS
genre =Windowing system
license = GPL (server)
LGPL (client)
CPL (yiterm)
website = [http://www.y-windows.org Y-Windows.org] The Y Window System (also known as Y-Windows) is awindowing system , consisting of a window server and a client library for writing applications. It was written by Mark Thomas as the subject of his Master'sthesis atImperial College, London . It is intended to be a successor to theX Window System , hence the name. It differs from the X Window System in having an integrated widget set and ground-up support for things like analpha channel , which allows transparent or translucent windows.At the end of his Master's Thesis he had a working system with some applications. Later he released the code and set up a community project. Y uses SDL, and in theory can run under any system that supports SDL.
As of 2005 , the project is incomplete and not undergoing active development; the developers do not have time to work on this project [http://www.y-windows.org/pipermail/y-devel/2005-January/001870.html] .A much earlier usage of the term "Y Window System" was made by Philip Taylor of
Royal Holloway and Bedford New College ,University of London , in anApril Fools' Day spoof submitted to theLaTeX -L mailing list on April 1st 1992; a copy of the article appears as the fourth message in an archive [http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/mail/latex-l_19920601.txt] stored on the Department of Mathematics web site [http://www.math.utah.edu/] at theUniversity of Utah .External links
* [http://www.y-windows.org Official Homepage] .
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