From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Dec 6 17:58: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.skynet.be (excalibur.skynet.be [195.238.3.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858F737B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:58:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from skynet.be (dialup582.namur.skynet.be [195.238.28.6]) by excalibur.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id fB71w1d12961; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 02:58:01 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <3C102234.6040100@skynet.be> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 02:58:12 +0100 From: Raf Schietekat Reply-To: Raf_Schietekat@ieee.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: X-Windows Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message