What Runs Where on Athena: Screen Accessories

Title and Description:

Dwm
Description: dynamic window manager that supports tiled, monocle and floating layouts. Layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for tha application in use and the task performed

TO RUN:

Changing your window manager can make drastic changes to the look and feel and operating commands of your desktop, and may make standard debathena controls and menus disappear. Commands may be non-obvious and you need to familiarize yourself with them before proceeding. Some window managers may require special configuration files in order to function properly. Please make sure you are fully aware of the consequences before proceeding

See home page (select Session -> Dwm to choose it a login)

See also: metacity, twm, Window maker, XMonad

Title and Description:

metacity
Description: Window manager supplied with Gnome user interface, the standard window manager on debathena

TO RUN:

(if previously deselected, select Session -> System Default Session to choose it a login)

See also: Dwm, twm, Window maker, XMonad

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:

Changing your window manager can make drastic changes to the look and feel and operating commands of your desktop, and may make standard debathena controls and menus disappear. Commands may be non-obvious and you need to familiarize yourself with them before proceeding. Some window managers may require special configuration files in order to function properly. Please make sure you are fully aware of the consequences before proceeding

(select Session -> TWM to choose it a login)

See also: Dwm, metacity, Window maker, XMonad

Title and Description:

Window maker

Description: window manager designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop Environment; tries to be compatible with the NeXTStep interface

TO RUN:

Changing your window manager can make drastic changes to the look and feel and operating commands of your desktop, and may make standard debathena controls and menus disappear. Commands may be non-obvious and you need to familiarize yourself with them before proceeding. Some window managers may require special configuration files in order to function properly. Please make sure you are fully aware of the consequences before proceeding

See Web page (select Session -> Window maker to choose it a login)

See also: Dwm, metacity, twm, XMonad

Title and Description:

XMonad
Description: dynamically tiling window manager written and configured in Haskell

TO RUN:

Changing your window manager can make drastic changes to the look and feel and operating commands of your desktop, and may make standard debathena controls and menus disappear. Commands may be non-obvious and you need to familiarize yourself with them before proceeding. Some window managers may require special configuration files in order to function properly. Please make sure you are fully aware of the consequences before proceeding

See Web page (select Session -> XMonad to choose it at login)

See also: Dwm, metacity, twm, Window maker

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: nautilus

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

Title and Description:

Office Outlook Web access
Description: MIT-wide enterprise webmail and calendaring system; calendaring is in the Calendar section

There is local information

TO RUN:

Go to the OWA entry site

See also: TechTime

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: 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% 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% 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:

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: Office Outlook Web Access

Note:

this application is being replaced by the calendar component of Office Outlook

Title and Description:

vinagre
Description: remote desktop access application

TO RUN:

athena% vinagre &

See also: ssh

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% xcal &

See also: 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-control-center

Title and Description:

xload
Description: displays a periodically updated graph of workstation load average

TO RUN:

athena% xload &

Title and Description:

xlock
Description: locks display and starts screensaver; hit a key and enter your passwork to unlock it

TO RUN:

athena% xlock

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: 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