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The part of the system responsible for organizing the windows of the various running programs, their resizing / closing gadgets, window borders, scrollbars etc. is the ''Window Manager''.
Finally you have the subsystem that does the drawing of control elements, rendering documents on screen etc.; this is commonly called the ''widget library''. However, there are alternatives to widget libraries, usually in the form of declarative languages (e.g., Mozilla's XUL, Qt's QML).
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