Tips on X Servers, Modems, and Optimizing Your Hard Drive
Welcome to this month’s Tech Support. This month we have started listing some nifty little Linux applications you may want to check out in our “App Tips” section. If you know of a program that you think we’d like to know about, drop us a line at tech@linux-mag.com. And, as always, keep those tech support questions coming.
Welcome to this month’s Tech Support. This month we have started listing some nifty little Linux applications you may want to check out in our “App Tips” section. If you know of a program that you think we’d like to know about, drop us a line at tech@linux-mag.com. And, as always, keep those tech support questions coming.
How can I find out which X server is being used on my system? I’m running Red Hat using XF86Config.
Locating the symbolic link called X on your system is the key to answering this question, because this link is what starts your X server. For Red Hat systems and derivatives, you can find X in /usr/X11R6/bin. On older versions of Red Hat, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is directly symlinked to the X server being used. On more recent versions, however, /usr/X11R6/bin/ is symlinked to a wrapper binary that calls /etc/X11/X, which is a symlink to the X server being used.
For example, on my system, I typed which X at the command line to find where the symlink is located. My system returned /usr/X11/bin/X, so I changed directory to /usr/X11/bin and did a long listing, ls -la X. If you have an older version of Red Hat, you will see the symlink pointing to the correct X server, and you’ve accomplished your goal. Since I run a recent version of Red Hat, the X symlink…
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