Summary:
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.
Table of Contents:
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.
