Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide (X Window System User's Guide Vol. 3) (Paperback)

by Valerie Quercia (Author), Tim O'Reilly (Author)

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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 and one for users of Motif. The Standard Edition uses the twm manager in most examples and illustrations. Revised for X11 Release 5. 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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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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Product Details

• Paperback: 836 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly; 4 edition (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565920147
• ISBN-13: 978-1565920149
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,655,451 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars X Window System User's Guide, December 16, 2000

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This review is from: X Users Guide Motif R5: Motif Edition vol. III (Definitive Guides to the X Window System) (Paperback)

The book is a good introduction to X Windows for users. It only touches on configuration. If you don't have an X Windows Administrator to go to you are better off buying an administrator's guide instead.