Chapter 25. Administration and Configuration of CDE

The Solaris common desktop environment (CDE) is an easy-to-use graphical interface that provides a consistent look and feel across UNIX environments. Many non-UNIX environments, such as OpenVMS SunSoft, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Novell, Inc. each contributed “best-of-breed” technologies to establish this standard for user and application interfaces based on the X Window System and Motif. While maintaining compliance with the CDE standards, Solaris CDE offers additional benefits to its users and developers. For example, you can use an image viewer to display, rotate, zoom, and convert ...

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