HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

Other Functionality
Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
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Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) 2.1 is an environment for interacting with your
workstation. When CDE is running on your system, it is said to be your system's
desktop.
Summary of Change
As part of the Node and Host Name Expansion (NodeHostNameXpnd) product bundle
1
(now available on Software Pack), support for expanded nodenames and hostnames has
been added to X11, Xt, Motif, CDE, and Audio.
• The input text fields of dtstyle and dtcm are enabled to get the maximum expanded
hostname.
• In ToolTalk, the nodename value is changed to the first component of the system
hostname.
• All the X11, Xt, Motif, CDE and Audio libraries and components that use filenames
containing a hostname are modified to create/read files containing the ipaddress if
the name of the file exceeds 255 bytes.
• All the CDE applications which display messages with the hostname in frames,
dialogs, buttons are changed so that the messages are left-aligned and the hostname
is truncated. The truncation is such that the initial characters of the hostname are
visible. The number of characters shown depends on the window size.
• All the relevant manpages have been modified to inform users about these changes.
Impact
If the nodename is set to a value different than the first component of the hostname, the
ToolTalk Application Programming Interface (API) returns the first component of the
hostname instead of the nodename.
Compatibility
In the machines where support for the expanded hostnames and nodenames is not
available, CDE cannot make remote actions involving hostnames with the expanded
name.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
1. See “Node and Host Name Expansion” on page 125.