This is somewhat of a technical description - the user need not be intimidated by any of this to get their graphical environment running on Linux. To learn about different Linux desktop environments, see 'What is GNOME/KDE?' below.) Unix has long since had a standard graphical environment called the X Window System System [Version 11] (X11 or X for short).

There are a large number of GUI Tools that are available for PostgreSQL from both commercial and open source developers. A detailed list can be found in the PostgreSQL Community Documentation

There are actually two graphical user interfaces, gnunet-gtk and gnunet-qt. Note that both of these need to be downloaded separately. The GUIs supports searching, downloading and inserting files.

From this list, Arena is free and is easily the best free chess graphical user interface available. It can be downloaded from here

The X Window System, or X, is a network-transparent window system. With X, multiple applications can run simultaneously in windows, generating text and graphics in monochrome or color on a bitmap display. Network transparency means that application programs can run on machines scattered through the network.

The IME edit boxes are even capable of inputting using Windows IME. IME, or Input Method Editor, takes input from the keyboard and, when you press a specific key (usually spacebar) converts it to other characters, and if you hit the key again it will list the available alternate characters for what you spelled. This is useful for complex alphabets such as East Asian (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc) character sets where there are literally thousands of characters in each language.

To install new software, just open up the "Applications" menu and choose "Add/Remove Programs." That's actually just a GUI for yum. When your software needs updates, a little icon will appear on your top panel (usually at the top right of your screen), and Fedora will tell you that you need updates. Now you will be automatically notified when there are new updates available for the software you have installed!

No, many of the day-to-day operational command line functions are available on the HMC, accessible from a remote system by using the rexec command or the OpenSSH command. A number of the more complex HMC functions can only be accessed through the Web-Based System Manager interface because they would be very complicated to use in command line form.

Quite a few of the classes can be used independently of the user interface. See utility classes, for example. There are also a few classes that will work without the GUI only by chance.

Yes, the CONNX Administrator allows system administrators and developers to configure and maintain metadata, security, data sources, and views. Yes. CONNX provides a Windows application called the Data Dictionary Administrator, which allows the user to create and maintain the metadata, create views, and establish additional security.

It is possible to run the standard IPSec VPN Client setup in "silent" mode. You need to download the whole procedure described is this document: VPN Deployment Guide

Yes. All of the new tools will feature both a graphical user interface, and where appropriate a command-line version for advanced users. In some cases the command line tool may be available first, since command line tools are quicker to code.

Most of you will be using default - Common desktop window manager that came with Solaris. If you need to run your own window manager, please read on. You need to have /opt/X11R6/bin (Solaris 2.x) or /usr/openwin/bin in your path. In your home directory you should create a file ".xinitrc". ".xinitrc" is the script used to start up X and it is invoked when you type "xinit".

The K-3D user interface is built on top of GTK+, the popular X widget set used by the GIMP and GNOME projects, among many others. By building on top of GTK+, K-3D can be compiled without source changes for both GNU/Linux and Win32.

Answer: Yes, there are now several graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for Potrace, contributed by various other people. There are GUI's for Linux and for Mac OSX. I have not tried them myself, so I cannot say if they work or if they have all the features you want. I suggest to try them out. Please look under GUI's and related software on the main Potrace web site.

In the Webmin Users module, click on the user that you want to symchronize with Unix and set his Password option to Unix Authentication. If PAM is not used on your operating system, the first two steps can be skipped. Webmin will instead read the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file directly to authenticate users who are using the Unix Authentication password mode.

In the Webmin Users module, create a new user called something like unixer, with access to the modules that you want all your Unix users to have access to. In each of the modules unixer has access to, change the module access control to give your users rights only to their own accounts. For example, in the Change Passwords module you should select Only this user for the Users whose passwords can be changed so that Unix users logging in can only change their own passwords.

Actually there are two versions of the uil compiler around: one is built as uil while the other executable is named newuil. The latter uses libUil as opposed to the older one which uses it's own code base.