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DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE dtUtilities - customization panel for choosing viewers & editors SSSSYYYYNNNNOOOOPPPPSSSSIIIISSSS ////uuuussssrrrr////ssssbbbbiiiinnnn////ddddttttUUUUttttiiiilllliiiittttiiiieeeessss DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN The _d_t_U_t_i_l_i_t_i_e_s customization panel lets the user choose favorite utility programs for use in the IRIX Interactive Desktop. For example, the program chosen as the user's Text Editor will be used any time the user double-clicks a text icon; the contents of the text file will appear in that editor. Similarly, the program chosen as the user's Web Browser will be used any time the user double-clicks a webjumper (or jumpsite) icon. These preferences are saved on a per-user basis and remembered across login sessions. The _d_t_U_t_i_l_i_t_i_e_s panel can be run from the toolchest (Desktop > Customize > Utilities), from the Desktop customization panel by clicking the Utilities... pushbutton, or from the Unix shell command line. Like most other customization panels, the desktop panel has the ``runonce'' feature, meaning only one instance of the application will run at one time. Attempting to launch the application a second time will have the effect of deiconifying the application window or popping it to the top on the current desk. The panel presents a set of six rollover menus: Text Editor HTML Editor Web Browser Image Viewer Mailer Book Viewer PostScript Viewer Each menu has at least two choices available. Most choices are available for installation off the IRIX distribution CD. Choices that appear in dimmed text are not installed on the system in the expected place (see the FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS section for a list of the expected locations). The Text Editor rollover has an additional choice called Other... that brings up a small dialog box into which the user can type any installed program desired as text editor. In a future release, the other rollover menus may also provide a means for specifying any installed program. The Text Editor rollover menu used to appear on the _d_e_s_k_t_o_p(_1) customization panel in previous releases of IRIX. For more information about the entire IRIX Interactive Desktop environment and about the XXXXUUUUSSSSEEEERRRRFFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSSEEEEAAAARRRRCCCCHHHHPPPPAAAATTTTHHHH environment variable, see the IID(1) man page. PPPPaaaaggggeeee 1111 DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS $HOME/.desktop-<hostname>/desktopenv The programs presented as choices in this panel are assumed to be installed in the following locations on the system, from the indicated software distribution products: Programs Expected locations Product -------- ------------------ ------- Text Editors: Jot /usr/sbin/jot desktop_tools Vi (text-based) /usr/bin/vi eoe NEdit /usr/sbin/nedit nedit Emacs (text-based) /usr/gnu/bin/emacs gnu HTML Editors: CosmoCreate /usr/sbin/CosmoCreate cosmocreate WebMagic /usr/sbin/webmagic webmagic Netscape Composer /usr/bin/X11/netscape netscape Text Editor Same as Text Editor choice above Web Browsers: Netscape Navigator /usr/bin/X11/netscape netscape Mosaic /usr/bin/X11/Mosaic sgi_inet Lynx (text-based) /usr/freeware/bin/lynx fw_lynx IconView /usr/sbin/fm desktop_eoe Image Viewers: ImgView /usr/sbin/imgview imgtools Xv /usr/freeware/bin/xv fw_xv Mailers: MediaMail /usr/bin/X11/MediaMail mmail Netscape Messenger /usr/bin/X11/netscape netscape Elm (text-based) /usr/freeware/bin/elm fw_UCTelm BSD Mail (text-based) /usr/sbin/Mail eoe Book Viewers: Insight /usr/sbin/insight insight InfoSearch /usr/sbin/infosearch infosearch PostScript Viewers: ShowPS /usr/bin/X11/showps dps_eoe GhostView /usr/bin/X11/ghostview fw_gv The freeware programs can be installed from the Freeware 2.0 or later distribution CD. A freeware subsystem typically has a ffffwwww____ prefix in its name. For example, the Elm mail program can be installed from the ffffwwww____UUUUCCCCTTTTeeeellllmmmm product. Mosaic can be installed from ssssggggiiii____iiiinnnneeeetttt....sssswwww....xxxxmmmmoooossssaaaaiiiicccc. PPPPaaaaggggeeee 2222 DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) DDDDTTTTUUUUTTTTIIIILLLLIIIITTTTIIIIEEEESSSS((((1111)))) Note that six programs are marked tttteeeexxxxtttt----bbbbaaaasssseeeedddd to indicate that they do not have graphical user interfaces; these can have less intuitive interfaces, requiring knowledge of arguably arcane key sequences. For this reason, point-and-click graphical programs are the recommended defaults. To revert choices to the recommended defaults, click on the Reset... button and click the Factory Settings toggle then click the OK button. Choices are applied as soon as the user chooses any of the menu choices, not when the user presses the _d_t_U_t_i_l_i_t_i_e_s panel's Close button. The choices are applied to the following desktop environment variables: WINEDITOR WEBBROWSER IMGVIEWER MAILBOXPROG BOOKVIEWER PSVIEWER These environment variables are used in the desktop's file-typing rules (FTRs), which control icon behaviors, as well as by the toolchest. For more information, see the _f_f_t_r(_1) and _t_o_o_l_c_h_e_s_t(_1_X) reference pages. If familiar with Bourne shell scripts, view the FTR files under /_u_s_r/_l_i_b/_f_i_l_e_t_y_p_e to see how the environment variables are being used. The _d_t_U_t_i_l_i_t_i_e_s panel remembers user choices across login sessions by recording and reading them from the file $_H_O_M_E/._d_e_s_k_t_o_p- <_h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e>/_d_e_s_k_t_o_p_e_n_v where $_H_O_M_E is the user's home directory, and <_h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e> is the name of the host as returned by the _h_o_s_t_n_a_m_e(_1) command. Users are not intended to edit or delete this file directly. NNNNOOOOTTTTEEEESSSS It's also possible to set the WEBBROWSER environment variable from the WebJumper application (see the _w_e_b_j_u_m_p_e_r(_1) reference page). If the user opens both the Utilities panel and the WebJumper application at the same time, the user can set the WEBBROWSER environment variable from both applications; the last selection will be put into effect in the desktop and remembered the next time the user opens either application. SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO IID(1), webjumper(1), fftr(1), hostname(1), toolchest(1X) AAAAUUUUTTTTHHHHOOOORRRR Rebecca Underwood PPPPaaaaggggeeee 3333 
