The Definitive Guides to the X Window System / X Window System User's Guide Standard Edition / X Window System User's Guide: OSF/Motif 1.2 Edition: VOL.3 - Softcover

Quercia, Valerie; Oreilly, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565920155 ISBN 13: 9781565920156

Verlag: O'Reilly & Associates, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

The X Window System User's Guide, Motif Edition, orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and the window manager. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to customize the X environment and provide sample configurations.This alternative edition of the User's Guide highlights the Motif window manager for users of the Motif graphical user interface. Revised for Motif 1.2 and X11 Release 5.Topics include:

• Starting the system and opening windows
• Using the xterm terminal emulator and window managers
• Most standard release clients, including programs for graphics, printing, font manipulation, window/display information, removing windows, as well as several "desktop" utilities
• Customizing the window manager, keyboard, display, and certain basic features of any client program
• Using and customizing the mwm window manager, for those using theOSF/Motif graphical interface
• System administration tasks, such as managing fonts, starting X automatically, and using the display manager, xdm, to run X on single or multiple displays

Material covered in this second edition includes:

• Overview of the X Color Management System (Xcms)
• Creating your own Xcms color database
• Tutorials for two "color editors": xcoloredit and xtici
• Using the X font server
• Tutorial for editres, a resource editor
• Extensive coverage of the new implementations of bitmap and xmag
• Overview of internationalization features
• Features common to Motif 1.2 applications: tear-off menus and drag-and-drop

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Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.

Valerie Quercia has co-written a number of books for O'Reilly & Associates, including the X Window System User's Guide (with Tim O'Reilly), X User Tools (with Linda Mui), and WebMaster in a Nutshell (with Stephen Spainhour). Internet in a Nutshell is her first solo book. Val is also the managing editor of The Left Field Press, a company that specializes in baseball publications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: O'Reilly & Associates
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565920155
• ISBN 13: 9781565920156
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 955
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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