linux guide

The X Window System or X or X11 is the foundation for the Graphical User Interface on

RedHat Linux. The X Server works with Graphics Hardware (VGA). Any application

requires graphic display is an X Client.

RedHat provides two desktop environment – GNOME and KDE. The GNOME is the default

desktop. To switch between the GNOME and KDE run switchdesk and select your

desired desktop. We will come to this point later.

By default RedHat Linux has configured with six (6) virtual console and one X console.

We can move to any virtual console by typing ctrl+alt+Fx (Where F – Function key and

in place of x we can use 1 to 6 to switch from one virtual terminal to another) or we can

switch to X console by typing ctrl+alt+F7.

We can start the X server by running the following command –

startx considering the system has started in run level 3. We will discuss “run level”

later.

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