Chapter 10, Core Fonts: Fonts the Old Way
Explains the traditional font system available in all versions of the X Window
System.
Chapter 11, Pango, Xft, Fontconfig, and Render: Fonts the New Way
Gives the detail of the new client-side font rendering used in almost all new Xbased
applications.
Chapter 12, Keyboard Configuration
Deals with the configuration of keyboards for the global environment, where the
user may use several different languages with different character sets.
Part IV: Using X Remotely
Chapter 13, Remote Access
Covers the safe and effective use of X??™s powerful remote-display capabilities.
Chapter 14, Using VNC
Explores the incredibly flexible Virtual Network Computer cross-platform display
technology, which can be used with X in many powerful ways.
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Part V: Special Configurations
Chapter 15, Building a Kiosk
Discusses how public-access GUI systems can be built using X Window
technology.
Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
Plain text
Indicates menu titles, menu options, menu buttons, and keyboard modifiers
(such as Alt and Ctrl)
Italic
Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, file extensions, pathnames,
directories, commands, and Unix utilities
Constant width
Indicates options, variables, values, the contents of files, and the output from
commands
Constant width bold
Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user, as well
as important lines of code.
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