HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Other Functionality
Common Desktop Environment (CDE)
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• CDE now has features to provide more accessibility to the desktop for physically
challenged users. These additional features are as follows:
— A single-point of GUI control through dtstyle for enabling or disabling
accessibility features.
— AccessX, a client for changing keyboard and mouse settings that allows a user to
navigate easily. AccessX can be invoked from the Desktop Style Manager.
Alternately, it can be invoked from the command line as
/usr/bin/X11/AccessX/accessx.
— A new screen magnifier utility called xzoom that is available unsupported under
/usr/contrib/bin/X11.
The accessibility features are not localized, but they are available in all locales that
CDE supports.
•The dtlogin process does not start X server when the mouse is not connected to the
machine. The following entry is commented out in /etc/dt/config/Xservers:
Local local@console /usr/bin/X11/X:0
However, the system administrator can make dtlogin start X Server by setting the
value of DT_LOCAL_X_START_ALWAYS to “1” in /etc/rc.config.d/desktop. Please
refer the manpage of dtlogin for further details.
• CDE provides Large File support (files greater than 2GB in size) through dtfile.
With dtfile, the following functions can be done on large files:
— File manipulations like File Move, File Copy, File Copy As Link, File Rename,
and File Change Permission can be performed.
— File search operations can be performed.
— The size of the large file can be viewed correctly in the Detailed View mode and
in the Change Permission dialog box.
• CDE applications and its libraries, XClients (xterm, hpterm, etc.), TPS, Audio
Subsystem, and Imaging Subsystem are delivered as PA on Itanium-based
platform. They run through Aries (PA compatibility). (For more information about
Aries, see “Aries Binary Translator” on page 206.)
Impact
• For the impact of CDE’s support for IPv6, see “IPv6 Support by Common Desktop
Environment (CDE)” on page 152.
• Improved accessibility features on the desktop will benefit physically challenged
users.
• CDE will not come up when the mouse is not connected to the system.
• Large file support is provided only by dtfile and not by dtpad and dtlp. Hence, the
following operations which require dtpad and dtlp cannot be performed:
— Large file opening by double-clicking on the file in the File View window.
— Large file printing