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The Nessus Security Scanner is a  security  auditing  tool made
up  of  two  parts  :  a  server, and a client.  The server,
nessusd(8) is in charge of  the  attacks,  whereas the client nessus
provides an interface to the user.

Nessus is an X11 client based on the Gimp ToolKit (GTK).