October 1992
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 7m
English
book
X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
by Linda Mui, Eric Pearce
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An Introduction to X Administration
This chapter provides an introduction to X and to X administration.
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An Introduction to X Administration
Administrators make things work. On the surface, the X Window System is just one more software package that the administrator needs to install, maintain and support for users. X runs on any architecture, so there are fewer differences between systems than with most software. What makes X different from other packages, however, is that it provides a great deal of configurability. It's relatively easy to get X to run on your site with its default settings, but it requires a bit more homework to take advantage of its flexibility and create a secure, centrally-maintained environment for users. This book does the homework for you.
Administrators need to know how X works before they can figure out how to make it work for them. This chapter provides an introduction both to X and to X administration.
1.1 The Design of X11
The X Window System, called X or X11 for short, is a network-based graphics window system that was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. X is based on the client/server model, in which the application program (the client) does not directly access the display, but communicates with an intermediary ...
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