Jim,
X Power Tools published by O'Reilly is a good general guide
for a *lot* of different configuration options. It's quite a large
book, 3 or 4 hundred pages, which gives you an idea of how
many configuration options are availabe. It's very "hands on"
and nicely laid out.
For more in depth information O'Reilly also
publishes a complete series on X and Motif. 8 Volumes off the
top of my head, which also gives you an idea of how big a
question, err, two, that is. One is volume 3 System Admin Guide
and Volume 8, Users Guide (I'm not positive about the volume #'s
so please don't hammer me on the trivial stuff). Both are good and
very in depth.
Hope this helps.
John C.
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 12:42:08 +1000 Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>On Wed Sep 16 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
>
>> How do you configure small things liek the screen saver name, and
>when it
>> comes on in X? What else can one configure besides vidtune?
>
>Heh, now *that's* a question! - (err, two actually:) - even it they
>are a
>bit vague. (What exactly do you want to reconfigure?)
>
>You can configure *everything* in X. Everything.
>
>Which is a good thing, and also a bad thing. Good because it gives
>you
>absolute control over how your system looks and feels and what it
>does, and
>bad because giving you this control means a steep learning curve - and
>climbing this curve is not for everyone.
>
><slightlyofftopic>
>
>Mickyslop gives everyone ONE interface (theirs), and made it look nice
>and
>(deceptively) simple. They have made a lot of money out of doing
>that.
>This is also a good and a bad thing (eg, everyone gets the same thing
>and
>everyone knows what to expect). But this isn't the unix way of doing
>things.
>
></slightlyofftopic>
>
>vidtune is just a sophisticated X configuration tool... use it once
>and
>throw it away:)
>
>But where to tell you to start? Hmmm... try the man pages for X,
>XFree86,
>fvwm then follow your nose from there with all the man pages they
>refer to!
>
>Oh, there are several linux HOWTOs that talk about all sorts of things
>to
>do with X, so check them out too.
>
>You'll be expert at this sooner than you think! :-)
>
>Good luck!
>
>Cheers
>Tony
>
_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
