11. Bibliography and Other Resources

There is lots of information on X Window to be found, on your computer right now, on the Internet, and in some excellent books available at your favorite bookseller. Give some of the following resources a try, they have been extremely helpful to the author, and can be extremely helpful to you, too.

• Check the Linux Documentation Project website for a lot more documentation on Linux, X, and related items.
• http://www.x11.org/is sort of a clearinghouse for all things X.
• http://www.themes.org/is a headquarters for themes for various window managers.
• The X Consortium's web site is http://www.x.org/... or perhaps it's moved to http://www.opengroup.com/.
• XFree86 can be found at http://www.xfree86.org/.
• The O'Reilly series on X Window! Visit http://www.ora.com/for the definitive books on X.
• Much more information on using TrueType with X is at http://www.freetype.org/.
• The man pages for X, xterm, XFree86, and for any other clients you find yourself using often, are very useful and quite information-packed, and highly recommended. As the oft-repeated saying goes, RTFM.
• There is a Remote X Apps MINI-HOWTO that is very helpful in figuring out how to run local and remote clients with X.
• Don't forget to visit http://www.gnome.org/ and http://www.kde.org/ for the latest on unified desktop environments in Linux, which are becoming more and more commonplace all the time.