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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Transition Guide

Preface

The Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Transition Guide helps you make the transition from the OpenWindowsTM environment to the SolarisTM Common Desktop Environment (CDE).

Solaris CDE is an implementation of the CDE standard developed by SunSoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Novell. It makes applications running on UNIX® systems portable and easy to use. CDE applications are more intuitive and consistent with other operating environments than the OpenWindows environment is.

Solaris CDE is web-enabled, allowing you to seamlessly view and manipulate web pages, files, and mail messages. This book discusses the CDE graphical operating environment under the following standard headings:

Where helpful, the differences in behavior between the OpenWindows and CDE platform features are identified. The answers to frequently asked questions have been integrated into the relevant topics.

This book gives only an overview of CDE features and functions. For a detailed discussion of any aspect of CDE mentioned in this book, see Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide and the CDE online help volumes.

Note -

Solaris Common Desktop Environment is generally referred to as CDE hereafter in this book.

Ordering Sun Documents

The SunDocsSM program provides more than 250 manuals from Sun Microsystems, Inc. For a list of documents and how to order them, see the catalog section of SunExpress(TM) on the Internet at http://www.sun.com/sunexpress.

Typographic Conventions

Table P-1 describes the type conventions used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

system% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: 

replace with a real name or value 

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C Shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$ 

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

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