update 2004-DEC-13
For basic help click on the books with "?" on them.
Unlike Openwindows, you should not have to use the workspace menu much.
Use the front panel (bar at bottom) instead for most applications.
To close an application double click on top left window border.
How to log into other computers from within CDE:
- Open Application Manager (drawer with pencils)
- Choose Desktop Tools
- Move down to "Xterm Rlogin"
- Click on icon
- If you want avoid all these steps in future, then drop the icon
into the install icon place on the personal application
submenu [ the one with the terminal]
Note that the text editor has many key sequences similar to emacs.
For vi fans, there is a vi editor in the personal applications section.
The terminal type in CDE is "dtterm" which is very similar to a vt220.
If you rlogin to machine that does not recognize dtterm
and you find it necessary to change terminal type
then type "termset vt100"
Settings are looked up in this order:
- ~/.dt (personal settings)
- /etc/dt (UofL defaults)
- /usr/dt (standard defaults)
Problems with CDE at the moment
No way to do stty istrip
This strips 8 bit characters to 7 bits to keep dtterm from getting messed up on control characters.
Work around: Use menu: Options->Reset->Soft to reset terminal or use "less" instead of "more" as your pager.
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