A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

8. Linux GUIs: X and GNOME

In This Chapter

X Window System 258

Starting X from a Character-Based Display 260

Remote Computing and Local Displays 260

Desktop Environments/Managers 265

The Nautilus File Browser Window 266

The Nautilus Spatial View (RHEL) 272

GNOME Utilities 273

Run Application Window 274

Searching for Files 274

GNOME Terminal Emulator/Shell 276

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Describe the history of the X Window System

• Start X from a character-based display

• Use X remotely across a network

• Customize the mouse buttons in the X Window System using the command line

• Explain the similarities, differences, and history of GNOME and KDE desktops

• Use the Nautilus File Browser

• Start a terminal ...