The X Window System provides the base technology for developing graphical user interfaces. Simply stated, X draws the elements of the GUI on the user's screen and builds methods for sending user interactions back to the application. X also supports remote application deployment--running an application on another computer while viewing the input/output on your machine. X is a powerful environment which supports many different applications, such as games, programming tools, graphics programs, text editors, etc. XFree86 is the version of X which runs on Linux, as well as on other platforms.

This package contains the basic fonts, programs and documentation for an X workstation. However, this package doesn't provide the program which you will need to drive your video hardware. To control your video card, you'll need the particular X server package which corresponds to your computer's video card.

If you want to install the X Window System on your machine, you'll need to install the XFree86 package. In addition, you will need to install the XFree86 package which corresponds to your video card, the X11R6-contrib package, the Xconfigurator package and the XFree86-libs package. You may also need to install one of the XFree86 fonts packages.

And finally, if you are going to develop applications that run as X clients, you will also need to install XFree86-devel.

Requer:

utempter, XFree86-libs, freetype, ld-linux.so.2 (glibc), libICE.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libSM.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libX11.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXIE.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXaw.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXext.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXi.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXmu.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXt.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libXtst.so.6 (XFree86-libs), libc.so.6 (glibc), libcrypt.so.1 (glibc), libdl.so.2 (glibc), libm.so.6 (glibc), libncurses.so.5 (ncurses), libpam.so.0 (Linux-PAM), libpam_misc.so.0 (Linux-PAM), libtcl.so (tcl), libtk.so (tk), libttf.so.2 (freetype), libutempter.so.0 (utempter), libutil.so.1 (glibc), /bin/bash (bash), /bin/sh (bash), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) (glibc), libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) (glibc), libcrypt.so.1(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc), libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) (glibc)

Veja também:

XFree86-3DLabs, XFree86-8514, XFree86-AGX, XFree86-FBDev, XFree86-I128, XFree86-Mach32, XFree86-Mach64, XFree86-Mach8, XFree86-Mono, XFree86-P9000, XFree86-S3, XFree86-S3V, XFree86-SVGA, XFree86-VGA16, XFree86-W32, XFree86-Xnest, XFree86-Xvfb, XFree86-devel, XFree86-docs, XFree86-libs