dtUtilities(1)
dtUtilities - customization panel for choosing viewers & editors
As shipped in IRIX 6.5. First release of IRIX 6.5.
NAME dtUtilities - customization panel for choosing viewers & editors SYNOPSIS /usr/sbin/dtUtilities DESCRIPTION The dtUtilities 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 dtUtilities 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 FILES 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 desktop(1) customization panel in previous releases of IRIX. For more information about the entire IRIX Interactive Desktop environment and about the XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable, see the IID(1) man page. FILES $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 fw_ prefix in its name. For example, the Elm mail program can be installed from the fw_UCTelm product. Mosaic can be installed from sgi_inet.sw.xmosaic. Note that six programs are marked text-based 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 dtUtilities 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 fftr(1) and toolchest(1X) reference pages. If familiar with Bourne shell scripts, view the FTR files under /usr/lib/filetype to see how the environment variables are being used. The dtUtilities panel remembers user choices across login sessions by recording and reading them from the file $HOME/.desktop- <hostname>/desktopenv where $HOME is the user's home directory, and <hostname> is the name of the host as returned by the hostname(1) command. Users are not intended to edit or delete this file directly. NOTES It's also possible to set the WEBBROWSER environment variable from the WebJumper application (see the webjumper(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. SEE ALSO IID(1), webjumper(1), fftr(1), hostname(1), toolchest(1X) AUTHOR Rebecca Underwood