2
The X User Environment
Administrators need to configure X environments for their users. This chapter describes the issues involved in making an X environment work properly.
In This Chapter:
Components of the X Environment
The -geometry Command-line Option
Complications with Display Names
Setting the Search Path for OpenWindows Support
Setting the Search Path for Mixed Environments
xterm and the Login Shell (C Shell)
Starting a Remote Client with rsh
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The X User Environment
2.1 The Configured X Session
We set up an X environment for a new employee, Joan, whose job involves internal project management. Joan is new to both UNIX and X. We've set up her environment so that when she logs in via the X Display Manager, xdm, she gets an environment resembling that in Figure 2-1.*
Figure 2-1. A configured X session
- Joan gets two terminal emulator windows. The top one is labeled “Top” and the bottom one is labeled “Bottom.”
- Joan has a clock in the ...
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