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Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
1. Introduction to the Solaris User Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Logging In and Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Logging In. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Logging Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Overview of the OpenWindows Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Windows and Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Closing a Window to an Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Opening an Icon to a Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Mouse and Pointer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Versions of the Pointer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Mouse Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Pointer and Input Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Pointer Jumping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Keyboard Equivalents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Menus and Pushpins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using the Workspace Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using Submenus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Pinning a Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using Window Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using Window Menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Choosing Menu Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Changing the Menu Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Window Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Drag and Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Positioning Windows and Pinned Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Moving Multiple Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Moving a Window Front or Back. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Moving Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Resizing Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Closing and Quitting Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Starting an Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Elements of an Application’s Base Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening, Saving, Including and Attaching Files. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Opening a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Saving a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Introduction to the DeskSet Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Starting DeskSet Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Managing Your Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Managing Your Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Printing Your Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Communicating on the Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Customizing the OpenWindows Environment . . . . . . . . . . 44
Hidden Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Magnify Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
More Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Dismissing a Help Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
No Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Help Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Desktop Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Help on Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Other Handbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Quick Access to Help Handbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Navigating through Handbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Closing the Help Viewer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Exiting the Help Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
On-line Documentation: AnswerBooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
2. File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
File Manager Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
File Manager Base Windows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
File Manager File Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
