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

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System Management

This appendix discusses various tasks involved in X Window System management, mostly from the UNIX point of view.

In This Appendix:

Including X in Your Search Path

Setting the Terminal Type

A Startup Shell Script

What Should Go in the Script

Starting X

Starting X with the Display Manager, xdm

Getting Started with xdm on a Single Display

Setting Up the Configuration File and Other Special Files

The Standard Login Session

Customizing xdm

The Xservers File

The Xsession File and .xsession Scripts

The Xresources File

The Error Log File

The xdm-pid File

Xstartup and Xreset

Security and the authorize Resource

Stopping xdm and the Server

X Terminals and the XDM Control Protocol

Starting X with xinit

Server Access Control

Host-based Access and the xhost Client

User-based Access: xdm and the .Xauthority File

Font Management

Adding a Font to Your Server

Converting Fonts and Updating fonts.dir

Making the Server Aware of Font Changes

Console Messages

Log Files

Changing the Color Name Database

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System Management

X exists in so many incarnations and runs on so many different versions of UNIX (not to mention other operating systems) that it is difficult to be definitive about system management. This appendix discusses several topics relevant to setting up the standard version of X (with UNIX) and keeping it running smoothly. The range of subjects discussed is somewhat broad. Here's an overview.

This appendix primarily focuses on ways in which you can set up X to run automatically: ...