What is the difference between console-based and xwindow-based application?

Applications Programming
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Hi everyone,

What is the difference between console-based and Xwindow-based application?

Can I say the application working well in Xwindows can work in console?
Can I say the application working well in console cann't work in Xwindow perhaps.
Eg, ncurses is console-based and Imlib2 is Xwindow-based.

Is my understanding above correct or not?

Thank you in advance!

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What's the difference between a book and a graphic novel?

Console applications don't have any fancy stuff and are (for the most part) completely keyboard-driven.
X11 applications need an X server and additional libraries, and can/should be able to handle both keyboard and pointer (mouse/tablet/...) events.
A console application can run in X11 though a "terminal emulation" (xterm/konsole/gnome-terminal/...) that will translate ASCII characters to images. An X11 application won't run without an X11 server.

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Hi pludi,

Thank you very much for your kind explanation!

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Fundamentally there's no difference between X11 applications and console applications. They're both just processes. The X11 application uses a library that opens an extra socket, then talks to it in a very particular way.

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Dear Corona688,

Thank you for your kind explanation!