LPI Linux LPIC1 Module 6 Module Contents • 1 Evans Ikua Lead Editor Kenya
[email protected] • 2 Chris Brown Content Author UK
[email protected] • 3 Mark Clarke Content Author RSA
[email protected] • 4 Brian Ssennoga Content Author Uganda
[email protected] • 5 Trust Zifa Material co-editor Zimbabwe
[email protected] • 6 John Matogo Material co-editor Kenya john
[email protected] • 7 Ken Mutua Material co-editor Kenya
[email protected] • 8 Bernard Owuor Material co-editor Kenya
[email protected] • 9 Sisay Adugna Material co-editor Ethiopia
[email protected] • 10 Balthas Seibold Senior Project • Manager - GIZ • Germany
[email protected] • 11 Petra Hagemann Project Manager - GIZ Germany
[email protected] • 12 George Nyambuya Africa Coordinator - • ict@innovation • RSA
[email protected] • 13 David Paulus Intern - GIZ Germany
[email protected] Module Contents User Interfaces and Desktops • Install and configure X11 • Set up a display manager • Accessibility Module Contents Configuring X11R6 Two of the configuration utilities provided with the Xfree86 software (which is a raw Xwindow system) are the XF86Setup and xf86config scripts. Other vendors have specific utilities such as: • Xconfigurator, • redhat-config-xfree86 (RedHat) • XFdrake (Mandrake) • sax (Suse) Once the server has been configured one can change the horizontal and vertical settings for the monitor with xvidtune. Module Contents Configuring X11R6 Basic X configuration specifies features such as the mouse used, the keyboard layout, the screen resolution, the video refresh rate, the display colour depth, and the video card you’re using. Some of these options require telling X about what hardware you have installed, whereas others enable you to adjust settings on your hardware.