On Fri, 24 May 1996, Mark Borges wrote:
> Well, with the upgrade of our OS to Solaris-2.5 comes this beast known
> as CDE 1.0.0. I've heard of CDE in the past, but this is the first
> I've seen of it in action.
>
> My impression after a two minute demo: it's a resource pig, seemingly
> spawning off a bazillion `dtwm' processes (unless our sysadmin
> mis-configured it). The available memory on our 128Mb sparc20 hovers
> around 500K now; before CDE was installed it typically was 20Mb.
Imagine running it on sparc classics with 16 MEG RAM... painfully slow...
> One thing it does offer is virtual workspaces, even for mwm-1.x (we
> won't have motif-2.0 for quite some time I'm told). And this thing
> that looks like a dashboard to switch between virtual workspaces;
> reminded me some of cvtwm. And supposedly a way to restore your
> desktop since the last time you logged out -- but it didn't work
> :0. (Isn't there an fvwm module that does something similar, or tries
> to -- FvwmSaveDeskTop?)
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any advice concerning CDE they'd like to
> share? Our sysadmin is keen on replacing XDM with CDE. Are there any
> pitfalls involved in that? Can I use fvwm under CDE? What about X
> resources? I'm concerned that CDE may somehow over-ride them with some
> others stuck in some ~/.dt/* file.
In one of the menu options, there is a way to turn CDE off... I don't
exactly know where it is, but I know it exists... It'd be kinda nasty if
it was permanent huh?
-peace
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Received on Fri May 24 1996 - 17:41:08 BST