Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide, Fourth Edition

Standard Edition

By Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly
June 1994
Pages: 836
ISBN 10: 1-56592-014-7 | ISBN 13: 9781565920149

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Orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. Later chapters explain how to customize the X environment. This popular manual is available in two editions, one for users of the MIT software, one for users of Motif. Revised for X11 Release 5.
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The X Window System User's Guide orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to customize the X environment and provide sample configurations. This popular manual is available in two editions, one for users of the MIT software, one for users of Motif. The Standard Edition uses the twm manager in most examples and illustrations. Revised and updated for X11 Release 5. Contents include: - Starting the system and opening windows. - Using the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. - Most standard release clients, including programs for graphics, printing, font manipulation, window/display information, removing windows, as well as several "desktop" utilities. - Customizing the window manager, keyboard, display, and certain basic features of any client program. - Using and customizing the mwm window manager, for those using the OSF/Motif graphical user interface. - System administration tasks, including managing fonts, starting X automatically, and using the display manager, xdm, to run X on a single or multiple display. New material covered in this fourth edition includes: - Overview of the X Color Management System (Xcms) - Creating your own Xcms color database - Tutorials for two "color editors": xcoloredit and xtici - Using the X font server - Tutorial for editres, a resource editor - Extensive coverage of the new implementations of bitmap and xmag - Overview of internationalization features

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Fourth Edition: June 1994
ISBN: 1-56592-014-7
Pages: 836

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"In spite of a phenomenal growth in popularity over the past few years, the X Window System remains difficult to learn. Documentation is a problem. Although the X Window System as distributed by MIT and most third-party vendors includes a sizeable body of online reference materials, they are difficult to locate and still harder to use. The documents assume that the reader already knows the system and requires detailed information on options available for a particular feature or subsystem. A few demo programs illustrate specific aspects of X, but virtually no tutorial information is available. Most users are forced to learn X through oral tradition.

"This book fills the gap by providing a comprehensive and lucid introduction to the intricacies of X. For the benefit of the first-time user, all assumptions are clear from the outset. The authors take special care to make their examples applicable to virtually any system and any version of X.

"Perhaps the most unusual aspect of this book is that it immediately explains those seemingly trivial aspects of X that lead to confusion among new users.

"For the novice, this is the best introduction to X available. It will also be a convenient reference for experienced users and X applications developers." --Computing Reviews, March 1991

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