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What change does the mouse pointer undergo when you move it to the edge of a window? What happens when you right-click and drag the mouse pointer when it looks like this? Repeat this experiment with the mouse pointer at the corner of a window.
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Try the experiment described in "Using a Window Manager Without a Desktop Manager" on page 122. What is missing from the screen? Based only on what you see, describe what a window manager does. How does a desktop manager make it easier to work with a GUI?
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When the characters you type do not appear on the screen, what might be wrong? How can you fix this problem?
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What happens when you run vim from the Run Command window without specifying that it be run in a terminal? Where does the output go?
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The example on page 105 shows that the man pages for write appear in sections 1 and 2 of the system manual. Explain how you can use man to determine which sections of the system manual contain a manual page with a given name.
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How many man pages are in the Devices subsection of the system manual? (Hint: Devices is a subsection of Special Files.) |
