X User Tools

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O'Reilly & Associates, 1994 - Computers - 812 pages

X User Toolsprovides for X users whatUNIX Power Toolsprovides for UNIX users: hundreds of tips, tricks, scripts, techniques, and programs that make the X Window System more enjoyable, more powerful, and easier to use.

The emphasis inX User Toolsis on useful programs, culled from the network and contributed by X programmers all over the world. The programs range from fun (games, screensavers, and a variety of online clocks) to business tools (calendar, memo, and mailer programs) to graphics (programs for drawing, displaying, and converting images).

The book contains a number of tips and techniques for configuring individual and systemwide environments.

This book employs the browser style of organization pioneered byUNIX Power Tools. Each article stands on its own and many contain cross-references to related articles. Readers can read the book straight through from cover to cover, but most readers will skip around in the book, reading only the articles that appeal to them. If they discover after reading an article that they want more information on a topic, they can follow the cross-references to other articles that cover particular subjects in more depth.

The book contains a glossary of common X and UNIX terms.

A CD-ROM containing source files for all and binary files for some of the programs (for a number of platforms, including Sun 4, Solaris, HP 700, Alpha/OSF, and RS6000/AIX) is included with the book. Note that the CD-ROM contains the software for both emacs and tcl/tk.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Welcome to X
3
Starting Clients on a UNIX System
11
The X Desktop
23
Copyright

33 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

application Article automatically bitmap clock color command buttons command-line option configuration cursor database default Delete desktop display editing emacs environment variable example exec exit Figure filename fvwm FvwmWinList geometry host icon box Icon Manager iconify input keyboard keycode keysym login look manpage menu item Meta Meta key Motif window manager mouse button move the pointer olum olwm OPEN LOOK OpenWindows pager pixels pixmap remote clients resize resource file restart rlogin Root Menu root window screen scrollbar second pointer button server shell specify startup script string submenu syntax terminal there's third pointer button titlebar toggle Twm menu UNIX val@ruby widget window appears Window Menu workstation X terminal X Window System xbiff xboard xcalc xclock xedit xmag xmail xmodmap xrdb xset xterm window xtici

About the author (1994)

Linda Mui started working for O'Reilly & Associates in 1986. She was first hired as a production assistant, later became an apprentice system administrator, and now is a writer. Her first writing job was for termcap and terminfo, which she co-authored with John Strang and Tim O'Reilly. She also wrote Pick BASIC, on programming applications for Pick systems. In between writing jobs, Linda works on troff macros and tools for the O'Reilly & Associates production staff. Linda was raised in the Bronx, New York and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lately she has been trying to improve herself by learning how to swim, play billiards, and accessorize.

Bibliographic information

TitleX User Tools
O'Reilly Series
Unix/X Window system
AuthorsLinda Mui, Valerie Quercia
Editionillustrated
PublisherO'Reilly & Associates, 1994
Original fromCornell University
DigitizedOct 7, 2010
ISBN1565920198, 9781565920194
Length812 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / General
Computers / Operating Systems / General
Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX
  
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