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X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System
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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
May 1990
Beginner
723 pages
17h 35m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part Three:

Client Reference Pages

This part of the guide provides UNIX-style “man-pages” for each of the X programs. These pages are arranged alphabetically for ease of reference, and they contain detailed information (such as all options to a program) that is not covered in other parts of this guide.

Intro

Introduction

Name

Intro – overview of reference page format.

Syntax

This section describes the command line syntax for invoking the client.

Description

This section explains the operation of the client.

Options

This section lists available command line options. In some cases, reference is made to “all of the standard X Toolkit command line options.” These X Toolkit options are listed in Chapter 8 of this guide.

Resources

This section lists the resource variable names that can be specified in an Xresources or other resource file. In some cases, reference is made to “all the core resource names and classes.” A list of the core names and classes appears on the reference page for X and in Table 8-1 in Chapter 8, Command Line ...

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ISBN: 9780937175149