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From a Programmer 's point of view, a windowing system implements graphical primitives such as rendering Fonts or drawing a line on the screen, effectively providing an abstraction of the graphics hardware. A window system enables the computer user to work with several programs at the same time. Each program runs in its own window, which is a rectangular area of the screen. Most window systems allow windows to overlap, and provide means for the user to perform standard operations such as moving/resizing a window, sending a window to the foreground/background and minimizing/maximizing a window. Some window systems, like X , have advanced capabilities such as network transparency, allowing the user to run graphical applications on a remote machine. SEE ALSO List of windowing systems
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