The classic industrial desktop environment CDE 2.5.0 (Common Desktop Environment) has been released. CDE was developed in the early nineties of the last century by the joint efforts of Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi, and for many years acted as a regular graphics environment for Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Digital UNIX and UnixWare. In 2012, the CDE code was open sourced by The Open Group's CDE 2.1 code consortium under the LGPL.
CDE sources include XDMCP-compliant login manager, user session manager, window manager, CDE FrontPanel, desktop manager, interprocess communication bus, desktop toolkit, shell and C application development tools, integration components third party applications. To build, you need the Motif interface element library, which was moved to the category of free projects after CDE.
In the new release:
- The transition from the outdated Imake build system to the use of the Autotools toolkit was made.
- Corrections have been made to support 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 shell version ksh93.
- On systems with the Xrender package installed, support is provided for tiling and background image scaling.
- Improved support for full-screen applications and added correct implementation of _NET_WM properties.
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