The Shell Hacker's Guide to X. and Motif (Wiley Professional Computing) - Softcover

Southerton, Alan

 
9780471597223: The Shell Hacker's Guide to X. and Motif (Wiley Professional Computing)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0471597228 ISBN 13: 9780471597223
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1994

Synopsis

This practical, hands-on guide shows UNIX users how to customize the X Windows System and Motif environments at the window manager level. It covers utilities for modifying menus, colours and fonts, mouse behaviour, customized windows and keyboards, and more. The author offers many helpful utilities using Motif and Open Look menu functions, X clients and UNIX shell commands.

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From the Back Cover

The Shell Hacker s Guide to X and Motif Written by the highly respected UNIXWorld editor, this practical, hands–on guide shows UNIX users how to effectively manage and customize the X window environment at the window manager level. Requiring only a basic familiarity with UNIX commands and shell script programming in UNIX, The Shell Hacker s Guide to X and Motif includes numerous utilities for modifying menus, colors and fonts, mouse behavior, and customized windows and keyboards. In addition, it develops numerous utilities for the desktop, using Motif menu functions, X clients, and UNIX shell commands. In a clear, step–by–step fashion, this unique tool:

  • Demonstrates why window manager level remains the optimal level at which to control X
  • Introduces X resources from the X client viewpoint
  • Explains the nuts and bolts of Motif menus, including quick reference to Motif menu functions
  • Presents two fully developed and complete menu shells one for general purpose Motif and one for Motif on Sun Systems
  • Shows how to combine the power of UNIX with the menu capabilities of Motif to build the ultimate menu system
  • Reveals how to customize the root window and turn it into a solid productivity tool
  • Describes how to maximize the XTerm terminal emulator
  • Offers an optional disk packed with ready–to–implement utilities plus Xmenu a complete environment for customizing X

About the Author

About the author ALAN SOUTHERTON is the Products Review Editor at UNIXWorld magazine. He routinely works with releases of UNIX, the latest UNIX and PC hardware, and new UNIX and X Window System products. His previous books include Modern UNIX, Windows 3.0 Programming Primer, Guide to IBM Interleaf Publisher, Programmer’s Guide to the Presentation Manager, and Advanced Presentation Manager Programming.

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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0471597228
ISBN 13 
9780471597223
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352

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