MIT Athena Computing Environment: What Runs Where: Screen Accessories Detail
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What Runs Where
| Major Applications |
### Full Table:
| Help/Information Screen Accessories Communication Text Software Graphics Software Audio Software Numerical/Math Soft Languages/Debuggers Programming Libraries Simulation & Modeling Courseware Miscellaneous Utilities |
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| # What Runs Where on Athena: Screen Accessories
| Windows Managers |
Title and description: afterstep Description: window manager based on the look and feel of the NeXTStep interface To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker
Title and description: ctwm Description: variant of twm modified to accommodate the use of several virtual screens (workspaces). It can use colored, shaped icons and background root pixmaps in XPM format [from Arnaud Le Hors] and any format understood by the imconv package To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma
Title and description: fvwm, fvwm2, fvwm2.4, fvwm95 Description: variants of twm, redesigned to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3-D look to window frames, and provide a simple virtual desktop. Memory consumption is estimated at about one-half to one-third the memory consumption of twm. fvwm95 has a look-and-feel more like Windows 95 To run: all of these are in the windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers; on Linux machines, one or more of these may also be supplied as part of the Linux distribution. Also, fvwm home page, fvwm95 home page See also: afterstep, ctwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker Note: fvwm95 is partially broken on Linux (clicking on the start button exits the panel)
Title and description: gwm Description: window manager that is extensible via a built-in lisp interpreter. Can emulate various other window managers and be extensively user-customized To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, nawm, twm, vtwm.gamma
Title and description: icewm Description: yet another window manager... To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, vtwm.gamma
Title and description: lwm Description: basic, very simple window manager with low configurability To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, ratpoison
Title and description: metacity Description: Window manager supplied with Gnome user interface, the standard Athena Window manager in Athena release 9.4. See release documentation for additional details of configuration options To run: see note on changing window managers and information page See also: mwm
Title and description: mwm Description: Motif Window Manager, incorporating "Motif look-and-feel". Default window manager on Athena 8.4 and earlier. To run: see note on changing window managers and information page See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, icewm, lwm, metacity, nawm, 9wm, twm, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker
Title and description: nawm Description: "Not A Window Manager"; from the man page: nawm is a Window Squid(tm) that replaces the need for a window manager. It's crude, featureless and incredibly small and fast! It allows you to do virtually everything you'd with keyboard commands that you configure yourself in an almost assembly language way. The big advantage of it is that you get to keep your memory for more useful things To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, mwm, ratpoison, twm, vtwm.gamma
Title and description: ratpoison Description: minimalist window manager that maximizes use of screen area, avoids mouse use To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers and home page See also: lwm, nawm, twm
Title and description: 9wm Description: window manager that attempts to emulate the window management policies of Plan 9's 8-1/2 window manager To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, mwm, vtwm.gamma
Title and description: twm Description: Tab Window Manager (formerly Tom's Window Manager). It provides titlebars, shaped windows, several forms of icon management, user-defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven keyboard focus, and user-specified key and pointer button bindings. To run: see note on changing window managers See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, mwm, nawm, ratpoison, vtwm.gamma, windowmaker
Title and description: vtwm.gamma Description: twm variant with lots of enhancements To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers See also: afterstep, ctwm, fvwm, gwm, icewm, mwm, nawm, 9wm, twm
Title and description: windowmaker Description: window manager designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment; tries to be compatible with the NeXTStep interface To run: in windowmanagers locker; see note on changing window managers See also: afterstep, fvwm, mwm, twm
| Utilities |
Title and description: Eterm Description: "enhanced" terminal emulator, incorporates advanced graphics capabilities To run: athena% add outland athena% Eterm & See also: gnome-terminal, rxvt, xterm
Title and description: gnomecal Description: desktop calendar To run: athena% add outland athena% gnomecal & See also: pscal, TechTime, xcal, xtc
Title and description: gnome-calculator Description: desktop calculator To run: athena% gnome-calculator & See also: dc, nickle, xcalc
Title and description: gnome-control-center Description: allows user to set various desktop preferences To run: athena% gnome-control-center & See also: gnome-font-properties, nautilus
Title and description: gnome-font-properties Description: allows user to set various desktop font attributes To run: athena% gnome-font-properties & See also: gnome-control-center, nautilus, xfontsel
Title and description: gnome-terminal Description: creates an enhanced terminal window with pull-down menus contaning commands that affect a variety of window attributes To run: athena% gnome-terminal (or click on Prompt button on Gnome applet bar) See also: Eterm, rxvt, screen, xterm
Title and description: ical Description: X based calendar program To run: athena% add tcl athena% ical & See also: pscal, TechTime, xcal, xtc
Title and description: less Description: bidirectional text file pager- allows scrolling forward and backward through a text file, with search capability To run: athena% less textfile See also: more
Title and description: more Description: text file pager- allows scrolling forward through a text files, with search capability. Often used in conjunction with other applications that output text To run: athena% more textfile See also: less
Title and description: nautilus Description: file manager incorporating multimedia and application autolaunch capabilities To run: athena% nautilus & See also: gnome-control-center, gnome-font-properties
Title and description: pscal Description: calendar program that prints hardcopy calendars by month, suitable for annotating daily activities To run: athena% add postscript athena% pscal month year (example: pscal 5 2000) See also: gnomecal, ical, TechTime, xcal, xtc Note: the PRINTER environment variable must be defined when you use this application, or else you will need to use the -Pprintername command-line switch
Title and description: rxvt Description: "slimmed down" terminal emulator, having fewer features and using less swap space than xterm. Consequently it can run faster and uses fewer system resources To run: athena% add outland athena% rxvt & See also: Eterm, gnome-terminal, xterm
Title and description: screen Description: full-screen text-based window manager and terminal emulator that multiplexes a physical terminal between multiple processes (typically interactive shells) To run: athena% add gnu athena% screen options See also: gnome-terminal, xterm Note: to use screen effectively, you need to learn various keystroke commands that do things like putting it in the background and attaching to running processes. See the screen man page or other documentation for details
Title and description: sipb-xscreensaver Description: screensaves and (optionally) locks screen To run: athena% add sipb athena% sipb-xscreensaver & See also: xscreensaver Note: this application was formerly called xscreensaver. It is not the same as xscreensaver in the Athena release
Title and description: TechTime Description: MIT-wide enterprise calendaring system; allows users to schedule meetings by synchronizing with other user's calendars To run: Go to the TechTime entry site See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, xcal, xtc
Title and description: vncviewer Description: remote desktop access application To run: athena% add outland athena% vncviewer hostname: display display is a small integer, typically 0. Note: remote host needs to be running VNC server for connection to work. If authentication is required, you may need to know a username or password to be granted access. If a firewall is set on either end, you may need to open the VNC port (5900) to enable the connection
Title and description: xcal Description: interactive calendar program (this is not the standard Athena calendar program; see xtc for that) To run: athena% add sipb athena% xcal & See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, TechTime, xtc
Title and description: xcalc Description: calculator that can emulate a TI-30 or HP-10C To run: athena% xcalc [-rpn] & (-rpn for HP-style calculator) See also: dc, gnome-calculator, nickle
Title and description: xclock Description: clock that can display in analog or digital form To run: athena% xclock &
Title and description: xfontsel Description: displays information and samples of fonts available on the system To run: athena% xfontsel & See also: gnome-font-properties
Title and description: xload Description: displays a periodically updated graph of workstation load average To run: athena% xload & See also: rp3, usernet
Title and description: xscreensaver Description: standard Athena screensaver. Screensaves and (optionally) locks screen. xscreensaver-button is a front end to xscreensaver. It displays a button with the xscreensaver logo. Clicking the left mouse button on the logo activates the screen saver. Clicking on the middle or right mouse button pops up a menu which allows you to activate the screen saver, configure it, restart it or exit. To run: athena% xscreensaver & athena% xscreensaver-button & (to use the xscreensaver-button front end) athena% xscreensaver-demo (to get a demo) There is documentation on the Web See also: sipb-xscreensaver Note: xscreensaver starts automatically by default and locks the screen after about 10 min. of inactivity. You can disable it by putting the following on a single line in your ~/.environment file (create the file if it does not already exist): set skip_xscreensaver Note: this application had fornerly been renamed to xss; we have reverted to the original name.. This is not the same application as sipb-xscreensaver in the SIPB locker
Title and description: xtc Description: Athena calendar- allows graphic display of time blocks, and overlap with calendars of selected other users on the network to find available meeting times To run: athena% add calendar athena% xtc & See also: gnomecal, ical, pscal, TechTime, xcal
Title and description: xterm Description: creates a new, empty terminal window on your screen To run: athena% xterm & See also: Eterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, screen

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