Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment needs polish


 
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Old 05-23-2008
Lightweight Equinox Desktop Environment needs polish

Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Desktop environments like KDE and GNOME offer a popular interface to computing. Unfortunately they are also often heavy on resource usage. By contrast, the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) is the fastest desktop environment I know of -- but its lack of standards support and a few missing features may be troubling to some users.


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gnome-default-applications-properties(1)			   User Commands			  gnome-default-applications-properties(1)

NAME
gnome-default-applications-properties - configure default GNOME applications SYNOPSIS
gnome-default-applications-properties [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
The GNOME preferred applications preference tool enables you to specify the applications that you would like the desktop to use when the desktop starts an application for you. It supports the ability to set your default web browser, mail reader, multimedia player, terminal program, and accessibility programs. For example, you can specify xterm(1) as your preferred terminal application. Then when you choose "Open Terminal" in the Desktop Background menu, the xterm(1) application will be started. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5). EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the gnome-default-applications-properties tool example% gnome-default-applications-properties EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties Executable for gnome-default-applications-properties ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. gnome-control-center(1), xterm(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006, 2007. SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-default-applications-properties(1)