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<Preface Id="SAG.Pref.div.1">
<Title>Preface</Title>
<Para>This manual covers advanced tasks in customizing the appearance and
behavior of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE). It includes chapters on:</Para>
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<ListItem>
<Para>Customizing system initialization, login, and session initiation</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>Adding applications and providing interface representations for
applications and their data</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>Configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>Customizing desktop services such as window management, printing,
colors, and fonts</Para>
</ListItem>
</ItemizedList>
<Sect1 Id="SAG.Pref.div.2">
<Title>Who Should Use This Book</Title>
<Para>The audiences for this book include:</Para>
<ItemizedList Remap="Bullet1">
<ListItem>
<Para>System administrators. Many of the tasks in this book require root
permission.</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>Advanced users who want to perform customizations that cannot be
accomplished using the desktop user interface. The desktop provides user-
specific locations for many of its configuration files.</Para>
</ListItem>
</ItemizedList>
</Sect1>
<Sect1 Id="SAG.Pref.div.3">
<Title>How This Book Is Organized</Title>
<Para>This manual includes the following chapters:</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;1, &xd2;Configuring Login Manager'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.LogMg.div.1">, covers how to configure the
appearance and behavior of the desktop Login Manager.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;2, &xd2;Configuring Session Manager'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.SesMg.div.1">, covers how the desktop stores
and retrieves sessions, and how to customize session startup.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;3, &xd2;Adding and Administering Applications'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.CnfAM.mkr.1">, covers how
Application Manager gathers applications, and explains how to add
applications.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;4, &xd2;Registering an Application'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.RegAp.div.1">, covers how to create a registration
package for an application.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;5, &xd2;Configuring the Desktop in a Network'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.ClSrv.div.1">, covers how to distribute
desktop services, applications, and data across a network.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;6, &xd2;Configuring and Administering Printing from the Desktop'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.PrCnf.div.1">, covers how to add and remove desktop printers, and how to specify the
default printer.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;7, &xd2;Desktop Search Paths'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.Datab.div.1">, covers how the desktop finds
applications, help files, icons, and other desktop data across the network.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;8, &xd2;Introduction to Actions and Data Types'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.IntAc.div.1">, introduces the concepts
of actions and data types, and explains how they are used to provide a user
interface for applications.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;9, &xd2;Creating Actions and Data Types Using Create Action'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.dtCrA.div.1">, covers
how to use the Create Action application to create actions and data types.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;10, &xd2;Creating Actions Manually'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.CrAct.div.1">, covers how to create action
definitions by editing a database configuration file.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;11, &xd2;Creating Data Types Manually'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.CrDT.div.1">, covers how to create data type
definitions by editing a database configuration file.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;12, &xd2;Creating Icons for the Desktop'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.CrIcn.div.1">, covers how to use the Icon
Editor, and naming conventions, sizes, and search paths for desktop icons.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;13, &xd2;Advanced Front Panel Customization'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.FrPC.div.1">, covers creating new
system-wide controls and subpanels, and other panel customizations.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;14, &xd2;Customizing the Workspace Manager'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.WMCnf.div.1">, covers customizing
windows, mouse button bindings, keyboard bindings, and Workspace
Manager menus.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;15, &xd2;Administering Application Resources, Fonts, and Colors'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.FACol.div.1">, covers how to set application resources, and how the desktop uses fonts and
colors.</Para>
<Para><!--Original XRef content: 'Chapter&numsp;16, &xd2;Configuring Localized Desktop Sessions'--><XRef Role="ChapNumAndTitleLead-in" Linkend="SAG.I18N.div.1">, covers system
administration tasks for systems running international sessions.</Para>
</Sect1>
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<title>What DocBook SGML Markup Means</title>
<para>This book is written in the Structured Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
using the DocBook Document Type Definition (DTD). The following table
describes the DocBook markup used for various semantic elements.
</para>
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<title id="SAG.pref.mkr.1">DocBook SGML Markup</title>
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<row>
<entry><para><literal>Markup Appearance</literal></para></entry>
<entry><para><literal>Semantic Element(s)</literal></para></entry>
<entry><para><literal>Example</literal></para></entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><para><command>AaBbCc123</command></para></entry>
<entry><para>The names of commands.</para></entry>
<entry><para>Use the <command>ls</command> to list files.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><para><literal>AaBbCc123</literal></para></entry>
<entry><para>The names of command options.</para></entry>
<entry><para>Use <command>ls</command><literal>&minus;a</literal> to list all files.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><para><symbol role="Variable">AaBbCc123</symbol></para></entry>
<entry><para>Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value.</para></entry>
<entry><para>To delete a file, type <command>rm</command>
<symbol role="Variable">filename</symbol>.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><para><filename>AaBbCc123</filename></para></entry>
<entry><para>The names of files and directories.</para></entry>
<entry><para>Edit your <filename>.login</filename> file.</para></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><para><emphasis>AaBbCc123</emphasis></para></entry>
<entry><para>Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized.</para></entry>
<entry><para>Read Chapter 6 in the <emphasis>User's Guide</emphasis>.
<?Pub _newline>These are called <emphasis>class</emphasis> options.
<?Pub _newline>You <emphasis>must</emphasis> be root to do this.</para></entry>
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</Preface>
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