No, but you have a start on it = ) and it should be on tldp.org! (I was under the impression that no one person was allowed to hold all the knowledge you speak of...)
Oh, maybe it could be in the form of a screenplay or theater script? You're something of a writer, right? BB On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:23:30 -0700 (PDT) larry a price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | is there a lucid explanation for how the various pieces of X and Gnome | interact with each other? | | I'm in the middle of rebuilding Gnome2 from ports because I was naive and | trusting regarding a Makefile that turns out to have upgraded parts of | gnome but not others. Oddly enough things kept working for quite some | time until I tried to build something else which when run promptly hosed | all my terminals (this was when I discovered the underlying hosage). | | Now as I understand it: | | X-server is a process that controls the screen and keyboard | X-client programs request resources and send commands to X-server | Gnome is a framework for writing X-client programs | Gnome environments also run a CORBA server to broker requests between | various Gnome components that have specialised subsystems. | | Now Gnome also does several other things and there are pieces that | don't fit into this schema all that neatly (like xdm/gdm) | has anyone run across a lucid explanation for what the players are and | why they do what they do? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
