Audience

This guide should help you become familiar with the basics of the OpenWindows environment and user interface concepts. The information in this guide should help you to perform basic OpenWindows tasks, such as:

• Displaying and choosing from the Workspace menu

• Moving an application icon

• Opening and closing an application icon

• Pinning and unpinning a pinnable window

• Displaying and choosing from an application's File menu

• Choosing exclusive or non-exclusive choice items on a properties window

• Selecting items in a scrolling list

• Using scrollbars

• Selecting multiple objects

If you are not familiar with these operations, read Chapter 1, Introduction to the Solaris User Environment for information on how to use the mouse, icons, windows, and menus. The on-line tutorial Introducing Your Desktop also provides information about these OpenWindows elements.

Note that context-sensitive help is available for each application. Position the pointer over the item you want help with, and press the Help or F1 key, depending upon your keyboard. A pop-up window is displayed giving detailed information.

Solaris supports SPARC^TM and IA machines, whose keyboards differ. Consequently, some keyboard equivalents of commands found in OpenWindows menus differ, according to keyboard.

For most keyboard equivalents, Solaris^TM software supports a Meta key combination that can be used on both platforms. See Chapter 1, Introduction to the Solaris User Environment for a list of command functions and their various keyboard equivalents.