In this lab, the student will learn to explore the basic features of the X Window and the KDE desktop environment. | Lab Using the Linux GUI X Window Estimated Time 25 minutes Objective In this lab the student will learn to explore the basic features of the X Window and the KDE desktop environment. Equipment The following equipment is required for this exercise Computer with Linux Red Hat or greater installed. Scenario The XYZ Company has just installed a server running Red Hat Linux . The company has asked the student to log in to the server with the administrative account. The server is configured with the KDE desktop environment. The task is to explore the basic features of the KDE GUI. Procedures Before beginning this lab power on or reboot the Red Hat Linux server. Step 1 Starting an X Window Session This Linux system was setup to boot into the command line by default. Linux however can be configured to boot into the GUI by default. If the user is just booting up the system for the first time then the user will need to login and supply the password as done in the previous lab. If already at the command prompt type startx The startx command will initialize an X Window session and start the KDE interface. Once the X Window session initializes the KDE Welcome dialog box appears. The user will not have to log in to the GUI because a username and password were already supplied in order to authenticate the user in the CLI. Step 2 Navigating the KDE interface Once the system grants access the desktop environment will be visible on the server. The installation of Red Hat allows installation of the KDE desktop environment. Use the KDE as the default Graphical User Interface GUI for all users. Other desktop 1 - 9 IT Essentials II - Lab Copyright 2002 Cisco Systems Inc. environments such as GNOME can also be configured and used with Linux. UNIX and Linux both rely on the X Window system to display the GUI. The X Window system is software that works with the system hardware and graphical applications including the window manager. The window manager is the .
