Integral with $dF(x)$ instead $dx$ notation

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What does it mean when we write $\int\limits_a^b f(x)dg(x)$ and how to translate it into an integral with $dx$ instead?

I get intuitively that the small rate of change along the $x$ axis is no longer constant but moves in a custom way.

Does this mean that if $g$ is bijective from $[a,b]$ to $[a,b]$ we have $\int\limits_a^bf(x)dx=\int\limits_a^bf(x)dg(x)$?

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$\int\limits_a^b f(x)dg(x)$ is a Riemann - Stieltjes integral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%E2%80%93Stieltjes_integral

For example $\int\limits_a^b f(x)dg(x)$ exists if $f$ is continuous and $g$ is of bounded variation.

If $g \in C^1[a,b]$, then $\int\limits_a^b f(x)dg(x)=\int\limits_a^b f(x)(g(x) / dx)dx = \int\limits_a^b f(x)g'(x)dx$ .