X server

X server definition - computer

The software in an X Window system that renders images to the display screen. X servers are the user's desktop or laptop machine. In the early days of X Window, X terminals were widely used, which were hardware dedicated only to X server rendering. See PC X server and X Window. See also Xserve.



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