[H-GEN] Sun Solaris

[Frank Brand]

David Makepeace wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Frank Brand wrote:
> 
> > My question is this:-
> >
> > Can any of you who run or know of CDE tell me if the screen resolution
> > can be reset with keystrokes like X Windows can (Ctrl-Alt-+) or is the
> > resolution fixed and can only be reset from the coniguration files.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that there is no way to do that with the native Solaris X
> server.  The Solaris X86 edition of Accelerated-X probably does have that
> feature though.  See: http://www.xig.com
> 
Thanks very much David, I sort of determined this by trial and error. I
can change the resolution by changing the configuration files but you
would think that SUN would have implemented it.

I had a bigger problem changing shell with Solaris having no chsh
command and the bourne shell being pretty rudimentary. I tried to edit
the etc/password file from sh to ksh but it simply  prevented login. I
do not find Solaris the simplest system to negotiate but I suppose that
if you are fully conversant with any system it is easy.
-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzfbrand
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