Recognizing Drives

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:14:49 -0500
Joseph <ubuntu at e-pops.org> wrote:

> I hunted this mysterious "x window" and one website had a section titled "How to get "x window" to work.
> 
> There I found thefollowing ""X Window System configuration file is called (usually) 
> [/etc/XF86Config], [/etc/X11/XF86Config], or [/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config] path online."  I have 
> none of these paths which are complete.  Everything is fine until the very last command.  It's not 
> there.

X or " X window system" is the graphical system that allows you to see
graphical windows  ( for example the Gnome desktop, KDE, and many others if
desired). Unlike the Windows graphical desktop, X is a separate system,
and allows many flexible and different methods to "ride" on top of it to
give you a graphical desktop. 

X is also is "network transparent", which in simplified terms means that
you can run an application from another networked machine, and have it
appear on the machine where you have your keyboard and monitor attached. 

You are using Thunderbird on X11, so your "X window system" is working
already :)

The information that you found is extremely outdated - it refers to
XF86Config , which was use with the Xfree86 system, now replaced by
"xorg". The configuration file for xorg is

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

... but you don't need to touch that if your graphical system is working
as desired already.

Peter



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