ULTRIX Worksystem Software DECwindows User's Guide

This document is the "ULTRIX Worksystem Software DECwindows User's Guide", published by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1989. It is intended for all ULTRIX DECwindows users and describes how to use and customize the DECwindows graphical user interface on the ULTRIX operating system (version 3.0 or higher).

The guide covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Understanding DECwindows Basics: Introduces windows as a visual workspace, fundamental mouse operations (point, click, drag, double-click, shift-click), and how to start and end a DECwindows session.
• Window Management: Instructions on manipulating windows, such as moving, resizing, shrinking to icons, expanding icons back to windows, and managing overlapping windows.
• Application Interaction: Details on choosing items from various menu types (pull-down, submenus, pop-up, option menus), supplying information in dialog boxes (text entry, buttons, sliders, list boxes), and performing text editing operations (selecting, copying, moving, deleting).
• Session Manager Usage: Explains how to use the Session Manager as a control panel to define and start applications, customize the DECwindows environment (keyboard settings, language preferences, mouse/pointer settings, screen display), and manage the session (put on hold, end session).
• User Executive (UE): Provides a comprehensive guide to using the User Executive for accessing the ULTRIX operating system, running applications, performing file and directory operations (copying, viewing, searching, removing, printing files; creating, navigating, removing directories), and customizing UE menus and commands.
• Printing and Screen Capturing: Describes how to print files from applications, capture screen images, and configure advanced print settings.
• Running Remote Applications: Details the process of authorizing access to your workstation and enabling the display of applications running on remote ULTRIX or VMS hosts via a DECterm window.

The guide aims to provide users with the necessary techniques to effectively interact with and personalize their DECwindows environment.