New Features for Desktop Users

Desktop users constitute an important segment in the Solaris OE user market. With Solaris 9, a number of enhancements and additions have been made to the Solaris OE desktop environment. Table A.2 describes some of these new features.

Table A.2. New Desktop Features in Solaris 9
FeatureDescription
Multibyte Character Set SupportWith Solaris 9, the Xterm terminal emulator supports multibyte character set locales, such as UTF-8.
Graphical Workspace ManagerTo manage workspaces, the Graphical Workspace Manager utility was introduced in Solaris 8. This utility has been further updated in Solaris 9. Graphical Workspace Manager provides a GUI representation of workspaces created on the system. You can use this utility to navigate ...

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