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 is revised for Motif 1.2 and X11 Release 5. It highlights the Motif window manager and graphical interface, including such features as tear-off menus and drag-and-drop. It will be the first choice for users with the Motif graphical user interface. Material covered in this second edition (also covered in Volume 3,Standard Edition:
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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X Window System User's Guide
The book is a good introduction to X Windows for users. It only touches on configuration. If you don't have an X Windows Administrator to go to you are better off buying an administrator's guide instead.
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