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X Athena Widgets orXaw is aGUI widgetlibrary for theX Window System. Developed as part ofProject Athena, Xaw was written under the auspices of the MITX Consortium as a sample widget set built onX Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt); Xt and Xaw are collectively known as the X Toolkit.[1] Xaw has been largely superseded by more sophisticated toolkits likeMotif, and later toolkits such asGTK, andQt, but it is still maintained (by theX.Org Foundation) and is available as part of most X Window System installations. The library, like other core parts of X, is licensed under theMIT License.
In a talk forUSENIX, X pioneerJim Gettys remarked that although Athena widgets were "ugly", they were often used in the period of X history that he describes as the "GUI wars", as a safe alternative to the competing Motif andOpen Look toolkits.[2]
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