Volume 3 X Window System User's Guide (X Window System User's Guide Vol. 3) Unknown - 1993

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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