Unix Help
The X windowing system is an extensive and widely popular windowing
system which run's on virtually all Unix machines.
X window Utilities
There are many applications that X provides. This is a short list:
- xmh is an X front-end to the mail handler mh.
- exmh is another (more advanced) X front-end to the mail handler mh.
- xcalc is a calculator.
- xclipboard is a scratch clipboard.
- xman is a front-end to the manual pages.
- xwininfo gives some information about a chosen window.
- xlsfonts gives a list of fonts.
- Cut and paste: ~You can cut and paste in many X applications
using the mouse. You can ``drag'' that which you wish to cut
while holding down the left button and paste elsewhere using the
middle button. For more info, consult the man pages.
For Further Assistance
There are numerous books written for the X Window system. The Nutshell
books, for example, provide a thorough look at programming X. These
can be used to supplement the man pages. Additionally, there are
newsgroups called comp.windows.x as well as comp.sources.x
(which you can read with xrn!).