Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide: Standard Edition
Quercia, Valerie; O'Reilly, Tim
Language: English
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA, 1993
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- Title
- Volume 3: X Window System User's Guide: Standard Edition
- Author
- Quercia, Valerie; O'Reilly, Tim
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1565920147
- ISBN 13
- 9781565920149
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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About the Author
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.
Valerie Quercia has co-written a number of books for O'Reilly & Associates, including the X Window System User's Guide (with Tim O'Reilly), X User Tools (with Linda Mui), and WebMaster in a Nutshell (with Stephen Spainhour). Internet in a Nutshell is her first solo book. Val is also the managing editor of The Left Field Press, a company that specializes in baseball publications.
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