Y Window System
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| Y Window System | |
| Developer: | Mark Thomas |
|---|---|
| Latest release: | 0.2 / February 21st, 2004 |
| OS: | Any SDL compatible OS |
| Use: | Windowing system |
| License: | GPL (server) LGPL (client) CPL (yiterm) |
| Website: | Y-Windows.org |
The Y Window System (also known as Y-Windows) is a windowing 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's thesis at Imperial College, London. It is intended to be a successor to the X 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 an alpha 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 [1].
