Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 02:58:12 +0100 From: Raf Schietekat <sky92136@skynet.be> To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: X-Windows Message-ID: <3C102234.6040100@skynet.be>
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If this is not the appropriate address for this kind of message, please excuse me, and let me know where I should have sent it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-understanding.html >>>>> ``X Windows'' is to be avoided wherever possible; see X(1) for more information. <<<<< The link for X(1) http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=X&sektion=1 does not work. The reader is led to expect the reason to avoid "X Windows" at the other end of the link, but "man X" on 4.4_RELEASE only provides a list of allowed forms, and no confirmation of my assumption that it's because Microsoft made "Windows" a trademark, even though "X-Windows" used to be the normal name for the "X Window System" (was it? is my assumption correct?). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html >>>>> Now, whenever invoke X-Windows with startx, KDE2 will be the desktop. <<<<< How about checking the whole handbook for occurrences of "X-Windows" (with or without hyphen), just to avoid inconsistency? I nevertheless also propose to systematically use "Microsoft Windows" or "MS Windows" instead of just "Windows". Raf Schietekat <Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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