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Solaris only. The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is the default graphical user interface (GUI) on Solaris systems. Solaris 7 users may choose between CDE and OpenWindows, but OpenWindows is marked as obsolete and not supported past Solaris 7.
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 in Appendix B.
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," a 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. |
| hotjava | Java-based web browser. |
| 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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| Reference: cdc |  | Reference: cflow |
