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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <chapter id="x-window-system" xreflabel="X Window System">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="installing.html" ?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <!--
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| 12 | $LastChangedBy$
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| 13 | $Date$
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| 14 | -->
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <title>X Window System Environment</title>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para>This chapter contains instructions to build and configure a graphical
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| 19 | user environment. You will need to choose one of the two packages in BLFS
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| 20 | that implements the <application>X Window System</application>:
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| 21 | <application>Xorg</application> X11R7 (<xref linkend="xorg7"/>), or
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| 22 | <application>XFree86</application> (<xref linkend="xfree86"/>). The
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| 23 | functionality of these two packages is quite similar. In fact,
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| 24 | the base system of <application>Xorg</application> was derived from the
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| 25 | <application>XFree86</application>-4.4.0RC2 code (note that the
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| 26 | <application>Xorg</application> build system has changed, but the underlying
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| 27 | core code is the same). Differences in the licensing philosophies was the
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| 28 | original reason for the split.</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>A second reason for the forking of <application>X</application>
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| 31 | packages is the stated goals of the developers. Some developers were unhappy
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| 32 | with the administration and progress of <application>XFree86</application>.
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| 33 | The X.org Foundation's future plans include significant improvements to the
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| 34 | internals of the system and more frequent releases.</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para><application>Xorg</application>-&xorg7-version; introduces a completely
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| 37 | autotooled build system which means that the packages build and install
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| 38 | using the conventional <command>configure</command>, <command>make</command>
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| 39 | and <command>make install</command> commands, but it now requires installing
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| 40 | more than 100 different packages. Most large commercial distributions have
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| 41 | decided to use the <application>Xorg</application> package, but several still
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| 42 | provide <application>XFree86</application>.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para><application>XFree86</application> continues to be a solid,
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| 45 | conservative application with excellent driver support.</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xmono-dummy.xml"/>
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| 48 | <!-- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xorg.xml"/> -->
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| 49 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xfree86.xml"/>
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| 50 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xorg7-dummy.xml"/>
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| 51 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xorg7.xml"/>
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| 52 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7proto.xml"/>
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| 53 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7util.xml"/>
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| 54 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7lib.xml"/>
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| 55 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xbitmaps.xml"/>
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| 56 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7app.xml"/>
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| 57 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7data.xml"/>
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| 58 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7font.xml"/>
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| 59 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xkeyboard-config.xml"/>
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| 60 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="luit.xml"/>
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| 61 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7server.xml"/>
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| 62 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x7driver.xml"/>
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| 63 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="xconfig-dummy.xml"/>
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| 64 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x-setup.xml"/>
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| 65 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x-config.xml"/>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | </chapter>
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