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X Window System User's Guide, Vol. 3

by Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly
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Overview

The X Window System User's Guide, Motif Edition, orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and the window manager. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to customize the X environment and provide sample configurations.

This alternative edition of the User's Guide highlights the Motif window manager for users of the Motif graphical user interface. Revised for Motif 1.2 and X11 Release 5.

Topics 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 interface
  • System administration tasks, such as managing fonts, starting X automatically, and using the display manager, xdm, to run X on single or multiple displays

Material covered in this second 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
  • Features common toMotif 1.2 applications: tear-off menus and drag-and-drop

Orients the new user to Window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. 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 and Motif 1.2.

Synopsis

Orients the new user to Window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. 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 and Motif 1.2.

About the Author, Valerie Quercia

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.

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Book Details

Published
June 1, 1994
Publisher
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Pages
955
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781565920156

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