Replacing CDE With Another WM

[Karl Balsmeier]

Hi there,

One of main nodes runs HP-UX 11.11 on an rp5470.

I have a few VP's who are kind of letting me know that the 80's look and feel of CDE is really putting a damper on their willingness to use the interface.

Alot of folks around here are used to slick KDE and Gnome interfaces, -have any of you tried out and deployed other WM's?

Is there a guide that shows how to make CDE a bit more modern looking?

-karlski

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

Well CDE is at its end of life. You could switch to hp gnome, take a look this page.

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[Karl Balsmeier]

Great! This is what we are looking for. We have an 11.11 system, it's production machine, how would I go about installing it just for test purposes without affecting the users until we did the formal switch?

-karlski

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi again,

Take a look at the faq's

Questions 7 + 8.

How do I install Ximian GNOME for HP-UX?
I've enabled GNOME, but I need to get back to CDE. How can I do this?

http://www.software.hp.com/products/GNOME/support.html

Good weekend,
Robert-Jan

[Rick Beldin]

CDE will be the supported desktop for the foreseeable future. It is planned to be the desktop on HP-UX for some time. No major enhancements are expected, but there have been some minor ones, suchs as IPV6 support.

GNOME is not supported and there are no current plans to deliver a supported version of GHOME on HP-UX. The version that you installed was a preview of a project that was canceled. There will not be updates or patches to that release of GNOME.