Comment Comment by s_gourichon The text of the article actually has it correct most of the time. The name is just "X". It's a windowing system that happens to be named "X".It's named this way because it is a successor to another windowing system named "W" and "X" comes after "W" in alphabet order.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Predecessors parent s_gourichon 6 years ago
It's named this way because it is a successor to another windowing system named "W" and "X" comes after "W" in alphabet order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Predecessors