This document is intended as a replacement and extension of the unmaintained X Terminal HOWTO. The following Mini-HOWTO's can be found at the Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) at www.tldp.org: XWindow-Overview-HOWTO, XWindow-User-HOWTO, XDM-Xterm Mini-HOWTO, NCD X terminal Mini-HOWTO.
TLDP, the XFree86 project, and the GNU Organization have a series of online manuals which describe many of the services dealt with in this Mini-HOWTO. Man pages relevent to this document include pages for xdm, nfs, exports, X, and ulimit.