Chapter 3. Working with GNOME

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The GNOME Desktop Environment

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AIGLX—Eye Candy for the Masses

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Basic X Concepts

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Using X

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Starting X

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KDE—The Other Environment

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XFce

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Reference

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Imagine a world of black screens with white text, or for those of you who remember, green screens with green text. That used to be the primary interface for users accessing computers. Computing has moved on significantly since then and has adopted the graphical user interface, or GUI, as standard on most desktop and workstation platforms.

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