Linux Sea – Updates on graphical environment chapter

I’ve updated the chapter on graphical environments a bit to reflect how applications, window managers, X server and widget toolkits work together. Hopefully it isn’t a big lie that I wrote there ;-)

I’ll probably be doing a bit of clean ups the coming days before I start out with more chapters…

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7 Responses to Linux Sea – Updates on graphical environment chapter

  1. Douglas says:

    Nice document, but
    http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/linux_sea/x2998.htm
    is wrong: Applications (or toolkits) usually do _not_ talk to the window manager, but to the X-Server.
    Simple proof: Start an Xserver, start an xterm, but don’t start a window-manager — xterm will still work. :)

  2. r0bertz says:

    Good job! Keep it up, man.
    BTW, I suggest you make a todo list. So, others may be able to help. ;)

  3. swift says:

    Douglas, you’re correct, I’ll see if I can undo my lying here ;-)

  4. SriMathe says:

    This may not be revelant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf

  5. yegle says:

    Hi there~
    I’d like to translate Linux Sea into Chinese.I know this is licensed under CC-by-nc-sa,but I think you should know this~
    The translated version will be here:http://yegle.net/linux_sea/
    currently It’s only English,but I’ll do it one by one.

  6. yegle says:

    and……what tools do you use to create these pages?I’m tring to translate them using vim…but…a little too difficult…

  7. swift says:

    I use vim as well, but the sources are in docbook format (well, a derivate of it which is then translated into docbook version 4). If I may recommend something: try to use the language you have most experience with. The document doesn’t use anything fancy ;-)

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