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What type of windowing system does Mac OS X use? Is it a modified X window system? Or something totally different?

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OS X uses Quartz Compositor

along with the Aqua theme.

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  • Really? I thought that that was the name they gave the 'look and feel' of it. Is this not the case? – Wuffers Oct 10 '10 at 00:55
  • @Mr. Man: Aqua is the theme (or look and feel) while Quartz Composer is the windowing system. I initially just had Aqua, which was incorrect. – Josh K Oct 10 '10 at 02:57
  • 'Compositor' :) – Casual Coder Oct 10 '10 at 04:21
  • Quartz *Compositor* is the name of the windowing system, actually; a bit picky, I s'pose, but Quartz Composer is technically something different. :) To further answer the question, the internal representation of windows is based on a PDF model. – mipadi Oct 10 '10 at 04:25
  • Yeah, my brain heard something different then what my eyes were telling me. What's really embarrassing is the article has a nice big notation saying *"Not to be confused with [Quartz Composer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer)"*. – Josh K Oct 10 '10 at 05:01