A windowing system is a system for sharing a computer’s graphical display presentation resources among multiple applications at the same time. In a computer that has a graphical user interface (GUI), you may want to use a number of applications at the same time (this is called task). Using a separate window for each application, you can interact with each application and go from one application to another without having to reinitiate it. Having different information or activities in multiple windows may also make it easier for you to do your work. A windowing system uses a window manager to keep track of where each window is located on the display screen and its size and status. A windowing system doesn’t just manage the windows but also other forms of graphical user interface entities.
| Look up windowing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Windowing may refer to:
- Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor
- In signal processing, the application of a window function to a signal
- In computer networking, a flow control mechanism to manage the amount of transmitted data sent without receiving an acknowledgement (e.g. TCP windowing)
- Date windowing, a method to interpret a two-digit year as a regular four-digit year, see Year 2000 problem
- Address Windowing Extensions, a Microsoft Windows Application Programming Interface
- A process used to produce images in a computed tomography (CT) scan
- A method of publication wherein a work is published on different media at different times (e.g. first in cinemas, then on Blu-ray)
