A Practical Guide to Red HatВ® LinuxВ®: Fedoraв„ў Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3rd Edition)

8. Linux Guis: X, Gnome, and KDE

IN THIS CHAPTER

X Window System

234

Starting X from a Character-Based Display

236

Remote Computing and Local Displays

237

Window Managers

240

The Nautilus File Manager

242

GNOME Utilities

248

Konqueror Browser/File Manager

252

KDE Utilities

260

This chapter covers the Linux graphical user interface (GUI). It continues where Chapter 4 left off, going into more detail about the X Window System, the basis for the Linux GUI. It presents a brief history of GNOME and KDE and discusses some of the problems and benefits of having two major Linux desktop environments. The section on GNOME covers the Nautilus file manager, including its spatial interface, and several important GNOME utilities. The final section covers KDE, presenting information about some of the more advanced features of Konqueror, and describing a few KDE utilities.

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