The X Window System may not be in the limelight like the Microsoft Windows interface, but it remains vibrant and developers continue to enhance it.About 30 developers from companies such as Intel, Sun Microsystems and VMware are attending the X.org Developer’s Conference in Menlo Park, Calif. this week to ponder the direction of the X Window System. “The conference is [held] to get the most active developers together and push ourselves forward [and] just communicate better, because it’s a globally distributed bunch of people who cooperate,” said Stuart Kreitman, a Sun Microsystems software engineer who organized the conference. The X Window System has been the graphical interface for Unix workstations since 1986, said Kreitman. It also is supported on Linux now, he said.“It’s like bricks and mortar. It’s the foundation of single-user Linux and Unix workstations,” Kreitman said. Version 7.2 of the X.org source code distribution is in the works, featuring modularization, according to Kreitman. Projects discussed Wednesday included MultiPointer X (MPX), which is intended to boost collaboration by allowing more than one mouse device to direct activity on a screen. Also discussed was RandR, for the Resize and Rotate extension, which is about enabling a screen to run at different resolutions. Virtual Multihead, a virtualization technology championed by VMware, also was covered. Software Development