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X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
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X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

by Linda Mui, Eric Pearce
October 1992
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

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1-1    An X server with clients from multiple hosts

2-1    A configured X session

2-2    A root menu

2-3    An unconfigured X session

2-4    Starting a new client

2-5    xclock window over xterm window

2-6    Starting the window manager

2-7    xterm window with new font

2-8    A window with a specified geometry

2-9    An xterm window in reverse video, decorated by twm

2-10   vi using only part of a window

2-11   Logging in with xdm

2-12   Starting the X server with xinit

3-1    xdm flow chart

3-2    Default xdm configuration files

3-3    xdm login box

3-4    Default xdm environment

3-5    XDMCP Direct, Indirect, and Broadcast queries

3-6    The chooser

3-7    An example chooser box

3-8    Chooser box with an R4 host

3-9    Adapted xlogin greeting

4-1    Host-based access control

4-2    XDMCP and the access code

4-3    User-based access control

4-4    Propagating the magic cookie between two hosts

5-1    Components of a font name

5-2    xfd

5-3    xfontsel

5-4    Font conversion utilities

5-5    dxcalendar with the wrong fonts

5-6    dxcalendar with aliases

5-7    cm without aliases

5-8    cm with aliases

6-1    Red, green, and blue color guns

6-2    Xcms vs. RGB color specification

6-3    xtici Edit menu

8-1    oclock without the SHAPE extension

8-2    oclock with the SHAPE extension

8-3    Recursive make

8-4    Files processed by imake

B-1    xarchie window

B-2    xkeycaps window

D-1    xcalc window

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