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07-23-2008

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CDE: Docking menu in front panel.

Hi community,

Situation: at work I maintain the CDE dtRootMenu for our team. It holds all the different machines, divided in submenu's for development / acceptance / production and within each submenu several defined ssh sessions to said machines.

From a centralised server, they push a CDE desktop to their (Exceed) X-window, set as single Window Mode (so the entire CDE is within 1 Windows-window).
Now, it would be easier for them to put Exceed in Multiple Window Mode, so they have the option to use the default Windows "Alt-tab" behaviour to easily switch between dtterms. Setting Exceed to Multiple Window Mode will set this straight, but that way they lose the dtRootMenu, since this option doesn't show the CDE-backdrop.

Now, since a couple of weeks I've been trying to locate a way to "stick" the dtRootMenu to the frontpanel, like any "ordinary" panelmenu, but without any luck :s

Does anyone know how I could manage this? Cause that way the front panel will solidly dock itself to the windows desktop in Multiple Window Mode and yet will still allow my collegues to use the defined menus.
I've already found some docs describing how to create a custom launcher for a different clock or whatever, but as we're speaking about 60+ unix servers, I don't wanna go through create these by hand (could script it I guess, but somehow I feel there is (or should be) a much easier way).

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by spufi; 07-23-2008 at 05:17 AM.. Reason: Some adjustments.

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dtsetup

dtsetup(8)						      System Manager's Manual							dtsetup(8)

NAME

       dtsetup - Configure and Customize the Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/dt/bin/dtsetup X resources

OPTIONS

       Specifies the standard X11 resource options. For more information, see the X(1X) reference page.

DESCRIPTION

       The  CDE  Setup	application, dtsetup, provides you with a mechanism to customize your Common Desktop Environment by using a graphical user
       interface.

       It also provides System Administrators a means to create a CDE environment for various types of users.

       When you invoke the CDE Setup application, a panel of four icons are displayed: Quick Setup, Desktop, Login, and Services.

       From the Quick Setup icon, you or the system administrator can provide minimal entries to configure CDE.

       The Desktop icon lets you or the system administrator set up the front panel, establish various window manager resources,  define  starting
       applications, and set parameters for the terminal, dtmail, and dtfile applications.

       The  Login  icon  lets  you  provide  information about your login session, while the system administrator can also set up the system login
       greetings, and set up the X server configuration.

       The Services icon has fields for various services configuration. You are restricted to the choice of whether to run the Motif/OpenLook  DND
       gateway.  The system administrator has additional choices regarding the ToolTalk Session and ToolTalk Database server, as well as disabling
       network dependency and allowing inbound remote process execution.

       The CDE Setup application provides an effortless way of assembling the CDE front panel from available controls. Furthermore,  by  providing
       various file names and other specifications, the CDE Setup application allows you to create your own controls.

       The CDE setup application can be invoked from:

       The CDE Application Manager.  Application Group: System_Admin Desktop_Apps Subgroup: Configuration

       To start the dtsetup application from the command line, enter /usr/dt/bin/dtsetup.

       Online help is available for the dxmtools application.  To get help, click on any Help button or use the Help pull-down menu.

RESTRICTIONS

       You must have superuser privileges to access the full functionality of this application.

FILES

       CDE setup application executable CDE setup online help volume

SEE ALSO

       Commands: dtlogin(1), ttdbserverd(1), ttsession(1), X(1X), xdm(1X), xprop(1X)

       Files: dtfpfile(4)

       Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

       Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

       CDE Companion

																	dtsetup(8)