Tham khảo tài liệu 'learning debiangnu linux-chapter 5: installing and configuring the x window system', công nghệ thông tin, hệ điều hành phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 5. Installing and Configuring the X Window System This chapter helps you install configure and use the X Window System often known simply as X . Once X is up and running you can choose how to start X. This chapter explains your options and also gives some tips on optimizing the performance of X. What is X X is the standard graphical user interface for Linux. Like other graphical user interfaces such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X lets you interact with programs by using a mouse or other pointing device to point and click providing a simple means of communicating with your computer. Originally implemented as a collaborative effort of Digital Equipment Corporation and Massachusetts Institute of Technology X was first released in 1987. Subsequently the X Consortium Inc. became responsible for the continued development and publication of X. Despite its age X is a remarkable and very modern software system a crossplatform network-oriented graphical user interface. It runs on a wide variety of platforms including essentially every variety of Unix. X Clients are available for use for example under Windows 9x and NT. The sophisticated networking capabilities of X let you run a program on one computer while viewing the graphical output on another computer connected to the first via a network. With the advent of the Internet which interconnected a sizable fraction of the computers on the planet X achieved a new height of importance and power. Most Linux users run XFree86 a freely available software system compatible with X. XFree86 was developed by the XFree86 software team which began work in 1992. In 1994 The XFree86 Project assumed responsibility for ongoing research and development of XFree86. Installing X Getting a proper X Window System up and running used to be a real challenge on Linux almost a rite of passage. Today device drivers are available for a much wider array of hardware and configuration tools to assist in the setup process have greatly .
