May 1990
Beginner
723 pages
17h 35m
English
book
X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
by Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly
Content preview from X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
2
Getting Started
This chapter shows you how to begin working if X is already running on your system and how to start the X server manually if X is not running. It also provides preliminary instructions for starting the window manager, twm, and the xterm terminal emulator.
In This Chapter:
If X is Being Started Automatically
Starting the First xterm Window
Bringing Up the Window Manager
Starting a Second xterm Window
How a Client Looks and Behaves: Application Defaults
2
Getting Started
This chapter introduces the basics of using X: starting the server and creating the first terminal window; starting the window manager; adding additional windows; exiting. While it is written as a tutorial, you do not necessarily have to follow along at a workstation.
Before you can begin using the X Window System, you must do three things:
• Start the X server.
• Start at least one instance of the xterm terminal emulator.
• Start a window manager. (Though you can run X without a window manager, this is fairly limiting.)
Depending on how X is configured on your system, some or all of these steps may be performed for you automatically. First, this chapter explains how you can tell if X is being started automatically and how to begin working if it is. Then this chapter describes how to start X manually. Later sections show you how to exit from an ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.