X Windowing System

linux virtual terminals

• from text: ALT-F{1,2,3,4,5,6}
• ALT-F7 is X when running to get back to X
• from X: CTRL-ALT-F{1,2,3,4,5,6} to go to text mode
• you must be on VT #1 (tty1) to start X automatically when you log in

.xinitrc importance

• If you want to use a different window manager, stay for the dotfile clinic afterwards.

using X in the default environment

xslock

Humiliation and dangers of not logging out ("Best of" misc.market)

• From: Kerry Emerson Ojakian
  Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
  Subject: FS: My Kerberos Tickets
  
  My Kerberos tickets are still valid for fourteen more hours. $5 OBO.
  
  -Kerry
   
• From: Andrew P Lin
  Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
  Subject: WTB: Goat
  
  Hi all,
  The religion that I am part of makes it a practice of sacrificing animals
  on certain "days of enlightenment". I need a young goat (preferably
  white, otherwise the gods will be unhappy) that will be able to be tied
  down to a table and then sacrficed with a butter knife (sometimes we use
  an olive fork). I am looking to pay around 30 dollars (and of course you
  would be invited to the ceremony). Please email if you have a goat or know
  where I can get one.
  
  Thanks,
  Andew
   
• From: dmgordon@andrew.cmu.edu
  Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
  Subject: A wizard has turned you into a toad.
  
  A wizard has turned you into a toad. You suffer 14 damage.
  As your eyes regain focus, you notice that you are now only 8 inches
  tall. There is an elephant stampede heading in your direction.
  You realize with a sinking heart that you probably left yourself
  logged in some lonely evening. When you were an apprentice, didn't your
  master repeatedly remind you never to do that?
  
  Being a toad, you are no longer holding any items.
  There is a lamp here.
  There is a paper sack here.
  There is a map here.
  There is a bottle here.
  
  The elephant stampede is getting closer.
  You can head (N)orth, (W)est, or try to (L)og out.
  You have 4 out of 1016 points.
  >
• From: Elizabeth K. McQuillan
  Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
  Subject: Am I a jerkoff?
  
  No, really! I've gotta know. Am I the jerk who left used one-sided paper
  in the more-521 printer instead of just calling Cluster services for more?
  Right before the TOC? Was I the retard that caused everyone to double
  print and then left myself logged in? Somebody please tell me!

Of course, if you're unlucky, the person finding your workstation won't be feeling creative and you'll get the boilerplate:

• From: Barkin Aygun
  Newsgroups: cmu.misc.market
  Subject: FS: My virginity
  
  $1 OBO. All resonable offers accepted.

how to install xfce/windowmaker/otherwm, tweak fvwm, etc.

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keymapping stuff

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