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274 What Do I Do Now?

There are times when you’ll just have to sit there and look at the sources to understand things. For-

tunately, because of the freely available nature of Linux, it’s easy to get the sources. Now if it were

only that easy to understand them. . .

Now that we’ve covered documentation, let’s look at some other common system tasks.

18.2 The X Window System

While there are people that will use the character-cell interface present when you ﬁrst log in, many

people prefer a graphically-oriented user interface. For Linux systems, the graphical user interface

of choice is the X Window System.

In order to run X, you need to have the necessary packages installed. If you selected the “XWindow

System” component to be installed when you originally installed Red Hat Linux, everything should

be ready to go. In that case, please refer to section 18.2.2 on page 276.

18.2.1 If You Haven’t Installed X

If you didn’t select the “XWindowSystem” component when you installed Red Hat Linux, your

Red Hat Linux system won’t have the necessary software installed. While it is possible to manually

install the required packages, you’ll probably ﬁnd it easier to re-do the installation, particularly if

you’re new to Linux. Another possibility is to perform an upgrade of the software and select the X

Window System components that you need from the package selection installation process.

XFree86 Conﬁguration

There are three methods for conﬁguring XFree86 on your machine:

Xconfigurator

xf86config

by hand

Xconfigurator and xf86config are functional equivalents and should work equally well. If you

are unsure of anything in this process, a good source of additional documentation is:

http://www.xfree86.org

Xconfigurator is a full-screen menu-driven program that walks you through setting up your X

server. xf86config is a line-oriented program distributed with XFree86. It isn’taseasytouse

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