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Oracle® Solaris 11.3 Desktop Administrator's Guide

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Updated: March 2018
 
 

Working With X Clients

X clients are applications that are displayed on an X server. X clients consist of one or more window managers and other applications. The X clients can run on the same system as an X server or run on a different system. The X Window System allows you to run any number of clients simultaneously. The following table lists some of the X clients.

X Clients
Description
twm
The Window Manager is responsible for the look and feel of the X Window System. The Window Manager provides the title bar, shaped windows, icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus.

    Some of the common Window Managers in the Oracle Solaris Desktop are:

  • Metacity Window Manager

  • Compiz Window Manager

  • Tab Window Manager

For more information, see the metacity(1) and twm(1) man pages.
xterm
Standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. You can open multiple terminal windows and run multiple applications simultaneously.
For more information, see the xterm(1) man page.
xdm
Display manager for the X Window System. xdm manages the X displays on local and remote servers.
For more information, see the xdm(1) man page.
xcalc
Scientific calculator for the X Window System.
For more information, see the xcalc(1) man page.
xclock
Displays the time in analog or digital form.
For more information, see the xclock(1) man page.
xset
User preference utility for the X Window System. The xset utility is used to set various user preference display options.
For more information, see the xset(1) man page.
xfd
Utility to display all characters in an X font. The xfd utility creates a window containing the name of the font being displayed, a row of command buttons, several lines of text for displaying character metrics, and a grid containing one glyph per cell.
For more information, see the xfd(1) man page.