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The X Window System is the GNU/Linux windowing environment, serving a
similar function to MS/Windows in providing a graphical windowing
interactive mouse point-and-click (WIMP) interface.
The first task in setting up the X Window System is to determine the
type of your video controller chip. There are very many video
controller chips available and when you purchase a PC with MS/Windows
pre-installed someone has already done the hard work of making
MS/Windows work with the particular video chip. Under Linux you will
need to tune the configuration to get the X Window System functionally
fully.
The X Window System, unlike MS/Windows, is a client-server
architecture. You run an X Window System server somewhere (usually on
your local host) to display onto your local host. You then run
clients (such as word processors, Netscape, etc.) somewhere (usually
your local host, but not necessarily) and have them display through
the server onto the display on your local host!
The freely available X.Org server is the default X Window System for
most GNU/Linux systems. This replaced XFree86 in 2005 as the most
widely used server following a change in the license condition of
XFree86 which added restrictions that were not accepted by the free
software community.
While installing xserver-xorg
you will configure your
card, or else it can be configured with:
$ wajig reconfigure xserver-xorg
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