CDE - Advanced Topics
The Relationship among X, Motif, and CDE X, OSF/Motif, and CDE are enabling framework technologies. Taken together, X, Motif, and CDE make up the three graphical layers on top of the operating system and hardware platform.
The GUI layers provide increasingly richer ease-of-use functions in a progressive series of layers that buffer the end user from the “user-hostile,” character-based interface of the operating system layer.
The X Window System
The X Window System consists of the following:
Xlib - Low-level library for programming window manipulation; graphics capabilities such as line drawing and text placement; controlling display output, mouse, and keyboard input; and application network transparency.
Xt Intrinsics ...
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