Christopher J. McNicholas wrote:
> 
> 1) Is there somewhere I can read up on the different types of windows 
> managers?

http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ is a pretty good site.

> 2) I loaded X without a windows manager installed. I can move my 
> mouse around, but that's about it, no menus or anything. I switched 
> VCs just to make sure I wasn't locked up :-).. The question is..how 
> do I properly close out of X without a windows manager?

The magic keystroke (for XFree86) is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

> 3) After X loads up, my screen is shifted one character to the left, 
> wrapping to the right hand side of the screen...what's that all 
> about? I'm forced to reboot to straighten it out!

Ya got me on that one.  I usually just tweaked the setting on the
monitor itself.

HTH,
Keith


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