Summary of Motif Toolkits

This section summarizes the differences between the Motif toolkits supported by the Solaris environment. Any Solaris Motif application that is compiled on the Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, or 2.6 operating environment is binary compatible with Solaris 7 CDE.

• Solaris 7 Motif: Based on The Open Group's Motif 2.1 with additional bugfixes and enhancements. The Solaris 7 software always includes the Motif toolkit.

• Solaris 2.6 Motif: Based on OSF/Motif 1.2.5 with additional bugfixes and enhancements. The Solaris 2.6 software always includes the Motif toolkit.

• Solaris 2.5.1 Motif: Based on OSF/Motif 1.2.3 with additional bugfixes and enhancements. The Solaris 2.5.1 software always includes the Motif toolkit.

• Solaris 2.5 Motif: Based on OSF/Motif 1.2.3 with additional bugfixes and enhancements. The Solaris 2.5 software always includes the Motif toolkit.

• Solaris 2.4 Motif: Based on OSF/Motif 1.2.3 with additional bugfixes and enhancements. The exact release of Motif depends on what version of CDE has been installed on that system. The Solaris 2.4 software does not always include the Motif toolkit.

• Motif available for Solaris 2.3: A version of IXI Motif based on OSF/Motif 1.2.2. An application compiled with this Motif library may not run on later versions of Solaris. However any Solaris 2.3 Motif application that is currently running on Solaris 2.4, 2.5, or 2.5.1 will run on Solaris 2.6 in the same way. The Solaris 2.3 software does not always include the Motif toolkit.

In the Solaris CDE environment, you gain access to additional widgets (such as a menu button widget and a terminal emulator widget and library) through the libDtWidget library. See Chapter 3, Solaris Motif Toolkits for more details.