The release of the classic industrial desktop environment CDE 2.5.0 (Common Desktop Environment) has occurred. CDE was developed in the early 1990s through the joint efforts of companies such as Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu, and Hitachi, and for many years served as the default graphical environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX, and UnixWare. In 2012, the CDE 2.1 code was opened by The Open Group under the LGPL license.
The source code of CDE includes an XDMCP-compatible login manager, session manager, window manager, CDE FrontPanel, desktop manager, inter-process communication bus, desktop toolkit, development tools for shell and C, and components for integrating third-party applications. To build it, the Motif interface toolkit library is required, which was transitioned to the category of free projects along with CDE.
In the new release:
- The transition from the outdated Imake build system to the Autotools toolkit has been completed.
- Fixes have been made related to the implementation of support for new releases of Linux distributions and BSD systems.
- Support for PAM and utempter has been implemented for Linux and FreeBSD, eliminating the need to set the suid root flag for the dtsession and dtterm programs.
- Updated the version of the ksh93 shell.
- On systems with the Xrender package installed, support for tiled layout and scaling of background images has been provided.
- Improved support for full-screen applications and added correct implementation of the _NET_WM properties.
Source: opennet.ru
