X Window System User's Guide, Vol 3 (The Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

Preface

By convention, a preface describes the book itself, while the introduction describes the subject matter. You should read through the preface to get an idea of how the book is organized, the conventions it follows, and so on.

In The Preface:

Assumptions

Organization

Bulk Sales Information

xshowfonts.c and Other Free Programs

Acknowledgements

Font and Character Conventions

Preface

The X Window System™ is a network-based graphics windowing system. It was developed by MIT and has been adopted as an industry standard. X provides the bare bones of a window system upon which almost any style of graphical user interface (GUI) can be built. One of the most popular user interfaces available in the market today is OSF/Motif™ developed by the Open Software Foundation.™

The X Window System User's Guide, Motif Edition describes window system concepts, the application programs (clients) commonly distributed with Version 11, Release 4 of X, and how you can expect programs to operate with OSF/Motif. (The Motif Edition is intended for those using X with the OSF/Motif interface. Another edition of the X Window System User's Guide is available for those using X without Motif.)

Assumptions

This book assumes that X is already installed on your system and that all standard MIT clients are available. In addition, although X runs on many different systems, this book assumes that you are running it on a UNIX® system and that you have basic familiarity with UNIX. If you are not using UNIX, you ...