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| Preface | |
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| A Brief Overview of the X System | |
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| X is a client/server window system | |
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| The user interface is not built into the base X system | |
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| The unique features that make X so useful | |
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| How X compares with other systems | |
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| The Benefits X Gives You | |
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| X gives you all the usual benefits of a window system | |
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| X integrates applications on different hardware and operating systems | |
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| Benefits of a standard GUI throughout your organization | |
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| X allows distributed computing, or centralized, or both | |
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| X fundamentally changes software and hardware decisions | |
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| The financial benefits of using X | |
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| How X can help different categories of people | |
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| How X Works, in Detail, and How the User Sees It | |
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| The Server -- The Display Control Software | |
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| The role of the server | |
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| Implementations ofthe X server | |
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| How the server handles output to the screen | |
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| The server contans the only display hardware dependence in the system | |
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| Handling text and fonts | |
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| Handling colour | |
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| Pictures and images--bitmaps, cursors and pixmaps | |
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| Extras you may want or need: server extensions | |
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| Communication Between the Server and Clients | |
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| Clients send high-level `requests' to the server | |
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| The server uses `events' to communicate input and status changes to the client | |
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| Intercepting input and requests for special handling | |
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| X can work over many different network types, as well as locally | |
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| What load does X impose on the network? | |
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| X Version and Release numbers, and compatibility issues | |
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| Clients -- The Application Programs | |
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| An overview of the client and its role | |
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| What X clients consist of, and how they are built | |
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| Internationalizing and localizing applications -- Xi18n | |
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| Examples of X application programs | |
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| `Look and Feel' | |
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| Toolkits for Application Programs | |
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| `Look and feel' means how the user sees the system | |
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| X allows many different looks and feels | |
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| Motif and OPEN LOOK -- the standard look and feels | |
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| How look and feel is implemented: toolkits | |
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| The Standard X Toolkit -- Intrinsics and Widgets | |
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| The standard X Toolkit, `Xt' | |
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| Widgets and widget sets are building blocks | |
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| The `Intrinsics' lets you manipulate wedges | |
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| Event handling and `callbacks' | |
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| Some implementations of Motif and OPEN LOOK use Xt | |
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| Other X toolkits | |
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| `Look and Feel' | |
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| Window Managers | |
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| What you need a `window manager' for | |
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| Using the window manager | |
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| The window manager's look and feel | |
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| How a window manager works | |
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| Using Many Applications Together -- `Inter-Client Communications' | |
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| Why applications need to communicate with each other | |
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| `Properties' -- the basic mechanism for inter-client communications | |
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| Advanced communications mechanisms | |
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| The Selections Service -- a high-lvel communications mechanism | |
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| ICCCM -- the rulebook for inter-client communications | |
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| Desktop managers | |
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| Using the System, System Administration, Performance, and Programming | |
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| Using the X System | |
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| What you need to get started | |
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| How you use the network facilities | |
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| Using character-based applications -- terminal emulators | |
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| Integrating X with other systems | |
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| Where to get the software | |
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| System Administration | |
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| Starting up the system | |
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| Customizing server settings | |
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| Administering fonts | |
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| Security | |
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| A summary of X system administration | |
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| Customizing Applications | |
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| Customizing applications | |
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| Resources mechanism for customizing applications | |
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| How the Toolkit uses resources | |
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| Translation tables resources and keyboard mapping | |
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| Tools for cusomizing resources | |
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| Performance Factors | |