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.
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.
Thanks for any help.
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Received on Fri May 24 1996 - 17:44:38 BST