Slide 1 : The X Window System
Slide 2 : X – windows system X - a portable, network-transparent window system.
The X Window System is a network transparent window system which runs on a wide range of computing and graphics machines. 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
Slide 3 : Text Text Text Text Txt What is GNOME? The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for end-users, users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
Slide 4 : What is KDE? With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for LINUX. Together with a free implementation of LINUX such as GNU/Linux, LINUX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify
Slide 5 : TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT Switching Between GNOME and KDE Easy tool to switch between GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
switchdesk
Slide 6 : Useful key in X Killing X Windows
CTRL-ATL-backspace
Changing windows
ALT-tab
Changing workspace
CTRL-ALT-arrow-key
Popping up Redhat menu
ALT-F1.
Slide 7 : X may start up automatically.
Display manager provides graphical login
Can start X manually text login using :
startx
or
ctrl-atl-f 7 Starting Xfree86
Slide 8 : mozilla – standard web browsers.
konqueror – KDE file manager/web browsers.
OpenOffice.org Office Suite
OpenOffice.org – open source version of StarOffice suite
Ooffice
oowriter
ooimpress
oodraw
oomath
oocalc Web Browsers
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