On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: > Can anyone direct me to a newbie FAQ or manual/guide to using (not > installing) X? >
Hard to think of one... surely there ought to be one. In the meantime, try reading the manual pages on your window manager, and there's a manual page on just 'X' too. Unfortunately like many man pages they're not too useful as an introductory guide/overview. > An example: When I start emacs, it starts up with it's title bar off the > screen (off the top). Can I set its "default" geometry somewhere so I > don't have to type the geometry stuff every time I want to use emacs? > You want to use X resources. The Emacs online help has a nice explanation - I'd quote it but it's pretty long. Go into Emacs, enter M-x info, choose the Emacs manual, then look for Resources in the "Concept Index." There's even an explanation of X resources in general. Alternatively, you could create a window manager menu item or hotkey instead of typing in the emacs command, or you could create an alias for emacs -geometry. But resources would be the canonical way to do it. > I'm VERY new to Linux/UNIX - I've been a windows user for a great many > years. Any book (in print or online) and/or guides, FAQs, would be > helpful. Thanks. > I think O'Reilly has a book on this (as well as a lot on X programming and administration, avoid those, and probably also avoid the Motif versions of their X books unless you bought Motif). The bad thing is that their book doesn't cover the most common Linux window managers. Maybe there's a Linux book that does. HTH, Havoc Pennington -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
