2 The X Window System; Manually Configuring The X Window System - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

The X Window System
The X Window System (X11) is the de facto standard for graphical user interfaces in
UNIX. X is network-based, enabling applications started on one host to be displayed
on another host connected over any kind of network (LAN or Internet). This chapter
describes the setup and optimization of the X Window System environment, and provides
background information about the use of fonts in SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server.
TIP: IBM System z: Configuring the Graphical User Interface
IBM System z does not have any input or output devices supported by X.Org.
Therefore, none of the configuration procedures described in this section apply.
More relevant information for IBM System z can be found in Chapter 4, Instal-
lation on IBM System z (↑Deployment Guide).
12.1 Manually Configuring the X
Window System
By default, the X Window System is configured with the SaX2 interface, described in
Section "Setting Up Graphics Card and Monitor" (Chapter 8, Setting Up Hardware
Components with YaST, ↑Deployment Guide). Alternatively it can be configured man-
ually by editing its configuration files.
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