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Revision as of 15:09, 2 September 2008
== Link to XWN740 Course Webpage ==
Murray Saul's XWN740 Webpage
== Link to XWN740 Subject Outline ==
XWN740 Subject Outline
== Link to XWN740 Weekly Notes ==
XWN740 Weekly Notes
== Tentative Topic Outline (See Table Below) ==
Emphasize the layered approach (Section 1.5 in book) | <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a>
Display and User Interface Hardware and Technology - Displays, graphics cards, USB devices |
Starting and Using the X Server - using VTs - startx - display managers - xdmcp - manually starting the X server |
Standard X Programs and Utilities - Chapter 6 in book - Useful for analyzing and debugging |
Installing and Configuring the X Window Server
- Auto-configuration
- No config file<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a>
- Self-generated config file
- Configuration tools (e.g., system-config-display in Fedora)
- Using the x.org configuration file
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Fonts, Colours, and Keyboards |
Integrated X Desktop Environments
- KDE
- GNOME
- XFCE
- Others
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X and Wide Area Networking
- The three challenges (13.7 in book)
- Privacy
- Access control
- Network performance (bandwidth and latency)
- Xauth
- ssh
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X and VNC |
Building a Kiosk
- This is a useful topic because it lets the students split the
different layers apart and recombine them as they see fit.
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== Useful X-Windows Resources ==
Fill in as you wish...
