Help with the X Window System

The X Window System is a client-server network based graphical interface system. It includes both an application programming interface and a network protocol. Other (separate) systems such as CDE or Gnome are layered on top of X to give it a look and feel.

See also:

If you are looking for a free X software to run under Microsoft Windows, you could try Cygwin; other free and commercial alternatives are available.

The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software:

X
X Window System
X Version 11
X Window System, Version 11
X11

X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc. For additional details, read the X man page.

xterm
The xterm window emulates a text terminal. Multiple xterms will allow you to have multiple command prompts. You can open a new xterm by selecting any of the top three items on the twm new windows menu.

This page hasn't been finished yet. Here's an outline of what should probably be put here later: 

screen components
  background
  mouse
  windows
    components
      titlebar
    	icon
    	resize
      body
    types
      clock
      console
      xterm
  menus
    in X, click and hold.
    background menus (twm)
      left: twm utility menu
      middle: TWM Windows -- list of existing windows
      right: new windows
    xterm
      hold ctrl and push/hold mouse button
      left: "main options"; not used often
      middle: vt options
        scroll bar
	reset terminal emulator
      right: fonts: default / unreadable / tiny / small / medium / large / huge

SSD 16-Jul-96