Name
cde
Common Desktop Environment
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is one of the graphical user interfaces (GUI) on Solaris systems. Solaris users may choose between CDE and GNOME.
Documenting CDE would require its own book and is beyond the scope of this one. Instead, listed here are some of the more useful individual CDE commands, which are kept in /usr/dt/bin. (Commands for the Desktop.) In addition, a number of OpenWindows commands are still useful. See the listing under openwin.
Useful CDE Programs
The following CDE and Sun Desktop commands may be of interest. Check the manpages for more information.
answerbook2 |
Sun hypertext documentation viewer. |
dtaction |
Invoke CDE actions from within shell scripts. |
dtbuilder |
CDE applications builder. |
dtcalc |
Onscreen scientific, logical, and financial calculator. |
dtcm |
Calendar manager. |
dterror.ds |
dtksh script for error notices and dialogues. |
dtfile_error |
dtksh script for error dialogues. |
dticon |
Icon editor. |
dtksh |
The “Desktop Korn shell,” an early version of ksh93. |
dtmail |
Mail reader. |
dtpad |
Simple text editor. |
dtprintinfo |
Print job manager. |
dtscreen |
Screen savers. |
dtterm |
Terminal emulator. |
fdl |
Font downloader utility for PostScript printers. |
sdtconvtool |
GUI for iconv. |
sdtfind |
File finder. |
sdtimage |
Image viewer (PostScript, GIF, JPEG, etc.). |
sdtperfmeter |
System performance meter. |
sdtprocess |
Process manager. |
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