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Author: Jerry D. Smith

ISBN-10: 0131237950

ISBN-13: 9780131237957

Category: Xwindows & Motif

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Designed for users of the X Window System—both novice and expert alike—this volume provides a balance of detailed tutorial material that explains the X Window System from a user's perspective and helpful hints for customizing their X environments to maximize user productivity. Features in-depth coverage of modern X terminal environments from the user's perspective (e.g., a sample script for users who access their accounts from X terminals with widely differing characteristics); offers a semi-tutorial approach to topics such as window managers, X terminals, and the overall X client-server environment; and focuses on the common components of all X environments—with supplemental coverage of the Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, and Sun OpenWindows X environments, as well as DESQview/X.For all end-users working in the X environment (engineers, programmers, scientists, and writers) and system administrators.

1. Introduction. 2. Getting Started with X. 3. Window Manager Fundamentals. 4. Using Common X Clients. 5. Configuring X Clients with X Resources. 6. Managing X Resource Specifications. 7. Working with X Toolkit-based Applications. 8. Fonts. 9. Colors.10. Graphics.11. X Server-related Customizations.12. Window Managers.13. X from X Terminals.Appendix A: X-related Issues.Appendix B: Properties.Appendix C: Resource Repositories.Appendix D: Event and Translation Information.Appendix E: Keysyms.Appendix F: OSF/Motif Virtual Keys.References.Index.