X Users Guide Motif R5: Motif Edition: OSF/Motif Edition v. 3 (X Window System)

Tim OReilly and Valerie Quercia

ISBN 10: 1565920155 / ISBN 13: 9781565920156

Edité par OReilly Media, 1994

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: X Users Guide Motif R5: Motif Edition: OSF/Motif Edition v. 3 (X Window System)
• Éditeur: OReilly Media
• Date de parution: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1565920155
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781565920156
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Used; Good

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Synopsis

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

À propos de l?auteur

Tim O'Reilly is founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, publisher of the X Window System series and the popular Nutshell Handbooks(R) on UNIX. Tim has had a hand in writing or editing many of the books published by O'Reilly & Associates. He is also the author of a book about science-fiction writer Frank Herbert. Tim's long-term vision for the company is to create a vehicle where creative people can support themselves by exploring interesting ideas. Technical book publishing is just the first step. Tim graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1975 with a B.A. in Classics.