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A window environment is an interactive system that supports the now ubiquitous style of graphical user interface (GUI) in which multiple centers of user activity (individual documents, for example) are presented visually as rectangular areas (windows) within a graphical display device. (Fig. 1 shows a typical display.) The window system in such an environment manages details of user interaction and provides functionality shared among application programs. The advantages of this approach, both for users and application developers, are a significant factor in the rapid expansion of computing to serve more people and a broader range of activities. For most computer users today, it is the window environment that defines the computing platform.