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<H1><A NAME=SECTION00710000000000000000>5.1 The X Window System</A></H1>
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<A NAME=secxwindows> </A>
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<A NAME=5178> </A>
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<A NAME=5179> </A>
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The X Window System is a large and powerful (and somewhat complex)
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graphics environment for UNIX systems. The original X Window System code
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was developed at MIT; commercial vendors have since made X the
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industry standard for UNIX platforms. Virtually every UNIX workstation
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in the world runs some variant of the X Window system.
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<A NAME=5180> </A>
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<A NAME=5181> </A>
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A free port of the MIT X Window System version 11, release 6 (X11R6) for
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80386/80486/Pentium UNIX systems
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has been developed by a team of programmers originally headed by David
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Wexelblat<A NAME=tex2html913 HREF="footnode.html#5659"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A>. The release, known as XFree86<A NAME=tex2html914 HREF="footnode.html#5183"><IMG ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="gif" SRC="foot_motif.gif"></A>, is
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available for System V/386, 386BSD, and other x86 UNIX
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implementations, including Linux. It includes all of the required
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binaries, support files, libraries, and tools.
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Configuring and using the X Window System is far beyond the scope
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of this book. You are encouraged to read <em>The X Window System: A
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User's Guide</em>---see Appendix <A HREF="node225.html#appinfo">A</A> for information on this book.
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In this section, we'll give a step-by-step description of how
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to install and configure XFree86 for Linux, but you will have to
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fill in some of the details yourself by reading the documentation
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released with XFree86 itself. (This documentation is discussed below.)
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The Linux <em>XFree86 HOWTO</em> is another good source of information.
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html4306 HREF="node199.html#SECTION00711000000000000000">5.1.1 Hardware requirements</A>
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<LI> <A NAME=tex2html4310 HREF="node203.html#SECTION00715000000000000000">5.1.5 Running XFree86</A>
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<I>Matt Welsh <BR>
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mdw@sunsite.unc.edu</I>
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