14: Customizing Your Workspace
12.I: Comparing Files
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12.I: Comparing Files
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Unix's windows environment is created by two components: the window server and the window manager. Basically, the window server provides the windows, and the window manager controls their layout, appearance, etc. There are a few different window servers available, but the X Window System is by far the most commonly used. Thus, X Window is virtually synonymous for window in the Unix-world. To learn more about the X Window System, you can check out the rather readable man page ( man X ) or the X-website. The more tangible aspect of the windowing environment is the window manager.
Most of our machines are using WindowMaker. To find out what aspects of your environment you can control with WindowMaker, here is a link to their user manual. Another great source to check out to this end is wm.current.nu. This page contains just about anything you could possibly want to know about personalizing your workspace using WindowMaker.
One interesting thing to know is that you can run X-Windows sessions on remote machines and have their windows show up on your screen - provided you are running X-Windows as well. While this might not be too exciting if you connect between Linux machines that all have the same setup, it could come in handy when there's something you need to do on weasel, the Solaris box. In any case, all you need to do is connect to the remote machine using ssh. This automatically establishes a channel between your machine and the remote machine's X-server, so all the windows you're starting there will be displayed on your screen.
In case you ignored our plea and skipped the howto section, you can refer to it now to find out how to log into the XWindows environment from the JCCL machines.
In the next section, we will dicuss how to change a few features of your X-Windows environment.
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