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>Chapter 5. Configuring the X Window System</A
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>Getting the X Window System Working with X-Configurator</A
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>Improving Font Appearance Under X</A
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>The X Window System, aka <SPAN
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>"X"</SPAN
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> (commonly and incorrectly
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known by many as <SPAN
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>"X-Windows"</SPAN
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>) is a GUI which sits on top of
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Linux. Unlike Microsoft Windows, the X Window System can look and operate
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in a large variety of different ways. It can operate very primitively or
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very advanced, look beautiful or ugly, be sleek and fast or bloated and
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slow (each of which are subjective qualities which cause as many arguments
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among users as the <SPAN
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>"Linux vs. Microsoft NT"</SPAN
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> debate seems
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to).</P
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>Getting X working properly can range from simple to hair-pulling
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complicated! It is a common complaint among users who are new to Linux,
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and I've fought with configuration settings countless times myself, so I'm
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completely empathic about this. Fortunately, such configuration is becoming
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easier and more automated in the newer distributions of Linux. In fact,
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if you are using Red Hat 6.1 you will probably not have to worry about this
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issue.</P
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>Although in a majority of cases X can be configured automatically,
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there are exceptions; I would recommend you know or find out the type of
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video card and amount of video RAM your system has installed, as well as
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the type of monitor and its horizontal and vertical synch rates (this
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information is usually available in the back pages of the monitor's users
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guide, or can be found on the WWW).</P
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