Chapter 7. Advanced X11 Configuration
| IN THIS CHAPTER
Chapter 4, "Booting and Shutting Down FreeBSD," Chapter 5, "Working with the X Window System," and Chapter 6, "Working with Applications," discussed some basics of the X Window System (X11). X11 is a very powerful server framework that can do much more than provide the basic desktop functionality that has been covered so far. Depending on your computing environment, you might find yourself needing to take advantage of the versatility and advanced features for which X11 was originally designed, such as in a clustered computing deployment where a central X11 server displays windows on remote client computers over the network. Similarly, if you have multiple UNIX users in a cluster or sharing a single computer, each one needs to be able to configure her X11 session to her own liking, using the X11 configuration files that each user can configure. This chapter looks at these and other advanced features of X11, starting with techniques for optimizing the graphical performance of your video card and display hardware. |
