X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

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mpweiher · 2014-09-27 · Original thread

Hmm...there were a lot more than 2 volumes on that bookshelf. And again, that was just the windowing system.

Amazon [1] suggests that there were at least 8 volumes.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Windows-System-Administrators-Definiti...

thyrsus · 2012-12-07 · Original thread

My Google-foo is usually pretty good, because I usually understand the conceptual framework within which I'm looking for a detail. This is not the case with the X11 system. The last reasonable overview I'm familiar with is the O'Reilly X System Administrators Guide ( http://www.amazon.com/Windows-System-Administrators-Definiti... ) from 1992 (volumes 1-7 are mostly about protocol details, primitives and libraries). Things introduced since then are a jumble to me.

What should I read for an update? I'm mostly in the Red Hat/Fedora ecosystem, which includes a multitude of upper layers.

ISBN: 0937175838