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cde

Common Desktop Environment

Solaris only. The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is the default graphical user interface (GUI) on Solaris systems. Solaris 7 users may choose between CDE and OpenWindows, but OpenWindows is marked as obsolete and not supported past Solaris 7.

Documenting CDE would require its own book and is beyond the scope of this one. Instead, listed here are some of the more useful individual CDE commands, which are kept in /usr/dt/bin. (Commands for the Desktop.) In addition, a number of OpenWindows commands are still useful. See the listing under openwin in Appendix B.

Useful CDE Programs

The following CDE and Sun Desktop commands may be of interest. Check the manpages for more information.

answerbook2

Sun hypertext documentation viewer.

dtaction

Invoke CDE actions from within shell scripts.

dtbuilder

CDE applications builder.

dtcalc

Onscreen scientific, logical, and financial calculator.

dtcm

Calendar manager.

dterror.ds

dtksh script for error notices and dialogues.

dtfile_error

dtksh script for error dialogues.

dticon

Icon editor.

dtksh

The "Desktop Korn shell," a version of ksh93.

dtmail

Mail reader.

dtpad

Simple text editor.

dtprintinfo

Print job manager.

dtscreen

Screen savers.

dtterm

Terminal emulator.

fdl

Font downloader utility for PostScript printers.

hotjava

Java-based web browser.

sdtconvtool

GUI for iconv.

sdtfind

File finder.

sdtimage

Image viewer (PostScript, GIF, JPEG, etc.).

sdtperfmeter

System performance meter.

sdtprocess

Process manager.


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