Need some clear X windows documentation
Dear debian KDE users and developers,
I know this is slightly off topic, but after years of using Unix
and Linux, I still have barely a clue about how X windows works and
in particular how all the programs, configuration files and directories
fit together.
Every time I have installed a new Linux system , be it RedHat,
Mandrake and now Debian, I have just kept my fingers crossed and
hoped that it would somehow miraculously come together, and more often
than not it does, but when it does not work, I am lost.
I have so far instlled one Debian Woody system, and
by luck I almost got a decent X Windows and kwm working, but there were problems
so I am tryed to reinstall 'woody', after coming to grief with an attempt at
'sid', but I don't have a clue where to set up X windows.
(Actually I can make some sense of an XF86config file, but none is to be found
in /etc/X11/).
I had a go, during a dselect session, using a VGA based graphical set up
program, but could not control it because the wrong mouse settings had been
fed into it, from who knows where.
So what I am asking is:
1. what is a straightforward to go about setting up X-windows, and then
getting it to work with KDE?
2. Is there clear straighforward documentation, somewhere, that will give me
a simple picture of how X windows works on a Linux system? ... something that
will tell me which files and directories and programs do what, and how do I
control them?
Thanks for your attention and TIA.
James
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James Sinnamon sinnamon@usq.edu.au
ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669
PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
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