May 1990
Beginner
723 pages
17h 35m
English
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X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
by Valerie Quercia, Tim O'Reilly
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Index
A
acceleration
cursor 14
pointer 222
access control
/etc/Xn.hosts file 547
user-based 548
xdm 548
XDMCP 548
xhost 547
action field (twm window manager) 208
active window 592
arrays
converting to bitmaps 109, 119
atobm (array to bitmap converter) 109 - 120
authentication widget 535, 538, 544
auro-repeat option (xset) 109, 221
average width (fonts) 87
B
background
colors 225
-background option (-bg) 169
background window see also root window 6
-bd option 169
BDF (Bitmap Display Format) for fonts 549
bdftosnf (font compiler) 549
-bg option 169
binding
button/key (.twmrc file) 206
keys 45
tight vs. loose (resources) 184
bitmap (creating graphics) 14, 109 - 118
command boxes 112
description of 109
window 110
Bitmap Display Format (BDF) for fonts 549
-bitmap option (xsetroot) 224, 225
bitmaps
creating from cursor 119
editing 111
standard 693
bmroa (bitmap to array converter) 109 - 120
Boolean variables 205
border color option (-bd) 169
border width option 168
Bourne shell script 528
bug compatibility mode 220
button
bindings 206
codes 237
logical 228
-bw option 168
C
C shell script 528
calculator (xcalc) 14 see also xcalc
description 132
function of keys 133
terminating 133
character set 88
character-cell fonts 82
class
definition 184
resource names 184
click-to-type focus
see explicit focus 592
client
command line options 164
definition ...
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