The low level unix windowing systems used on most linux releases. It has kept up with the times with the Xcb release. Most of the unnecessary asynchronous waits are gone in calls to Xwindows. So it becomes efficient, again, and is ubiquitous across linux. It does not replace the window managers with the drop down menu systems and layouts, its main job is to move pixels to restore windows uncovered on the screen, and to deal with mouse or keyboard clicks. It also defines the low level font storage.
The new technology of Xcb enables a new genre of games, not as fast as direct access to the graphics card, and those games use direct access anyway. So X fits, it is long lasting.
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