Using Basic X Window System Applications
The desktop applications that are included with Fedora Core 4 are always easily accessible from the menus on the menubar; however, Fedora Core 4 also installs a set of desktop applications that are not accessible via the menus and must be launched via the command line. These applications are with a part of the X Window System itself, the underlying technology that forms the basis of the Fedora Core 4 desktop environment.
X Window System applications have wider compatibility; they can usually be found on any Linux or Unix computer with a graphical desktop environment of any kind, regardless of the system's manufacturer or desktop environment.
If you performed a custom installation of Fedora Core 4 in
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