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<chapter id="GLOSS.lGlos.div.0">
<title>Common Desktop Environment: Glossary</title>
<para>This glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms used in the Common
Desktop Environment (CDE) to act as a source and reference base for all users
of CDE. Because the audience for this glossary consists of many different
types of users&mdash;from end users to developers to translators&mdash;the format
for a glossary definition may include information about the audience, where the
term originated, and the CDE component that uses the term in its graphical
user interface. Terms that are marked &ldquo;Do not use&rdquo; provide a preferred
term as an alternative.</para>
</chapter>
<glossary id="GLOSS.lGlos.div.1">
<title>Glossary</title>
<glossentry><glossterm>$HOME</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A UNIX<superscript>&reg;</superscript>
environment variable that contains the
path to a user's home directory (folder). In the end-user documentation, use
<emphasis>HomeDirectory</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>132 Column Switching</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to enable or disable
an escape sequence for switching to 132-column format.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>abort</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Preferred term <emphasis>cancel</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>About <emphasis>appname</emphasis></glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that displays a window that contains information about an
application or product, such as its copyright notice, logo, or release number.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>absolute path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A path specification that begins with the root directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Acceleration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: The ratio of the rate of movement of
the
pointer to the rate of mouse movement when in accelerated mode. When the
mouse is moved slowly, the pointer moves at one rate for precise control,
when
a threshold of mouse movement speed is exceeded, the pointer moves at an
another, accelerated rate.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm id="GLOSS.lGlos.mkr.1">accelerator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use in end-user documentation. The preferred term <emphasis>shortcut key</emphasis>.
Accelerator is acceptable in programmer documentation.</para>
<para>1) A key or sequence of keys on the keyboard or multiple clicks of mouse
buttons that quickly performs specific menu or application functions without
using a menu.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: See <emphasis>shortcut key</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>access</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Permission granted to a user or group of users to perform various operations
on a file or folder. See <emphasis>Permissions</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Access List and Permissions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Use to create a list of names of
other users
whom you want to have access to your calendar to read or edit the data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>access privileges</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Permissions granted to a user or group of users to perform various
operations on a file or folder. See <emphasis>Permissions</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Help: Tasks: Use to change the Read, Write, and Execute
permissions on a file or directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>account</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login: An administrative entity that gives a user access to a system.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A desktop construct that provides a method for running applications,
executing commands, and other activities such as printing, removing files,
and
changing directories.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of choice used to invoke an action where
further specification of parameters for invocation of the action are not required.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action database</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A database containing action and data type definitions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action definition file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: A file that defines an action by associating an icon
with a
command or executable file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An icon that represents an action in a File Manager or Application Manager
window, or in the workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action label</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The name of an action that is displayed under the icon for that action.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A message that indicates that a condition requiring
a
response from the user has occurred.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>action name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: text field label: The name associated with an action
that may be
displayed under the icon for the action. By default, the action name is used
as
the action label.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>activatable element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element used to invoke or initiate an action
using
the SELECT button. Activatable elements are used to represent action choices,
dialog choices, and cascading choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>activate</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To initiate the activity associated with a choice.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>activation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The process of initiating the activity associated
with a
choice.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>activation preview</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A special user assist action that applications
can
use. In an application that supports activation preview, when a user presses
and holds the SELECT button over a push button or toggle button, information
is presented that describes the effect of activating the control. Also referred
to
as <emphasis>previewing</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>active</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A window, window element, or icon that is currently affected by keyboard
and
mouse input. Active windows are differentiated from other windows on the
workspace by a distinctive title bar color or shade. An active window element
is indicated by a highlight or selection cursor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>active cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The cursor displayed in or on the control that
has
<emphasis>focus</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>active text region</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The region of text that is activatable as a single
element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>active window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A window that receives keyboard input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To incorporate one or more additional entities into a collection
of like
entities.</para>
<para>2) Style Manager: Color dialog box: To incorporate an item into a list
of
palettes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose: Attachments menu: Add File: Use to attach a file to
your
electronic mail message for sending.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add Hot Spot</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to define a hot spot when drawing a mouse
pointer.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>add mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A keyboard-based selection mode in which navigation
in a scope of selection does not affect the current selection and in which
selection techniques toggle the selection state of identified elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Access List and Permissions dialog
box:
Use to add the user name typed in the User Name field to the access list.
The
user is given the access to your calendar that you specify in the Permissions
field.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Browse: Menu Editor: button: Use to add the user name typed
in
the User Name field to the Browse Menu list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add Subpanel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: control pop-up menu: Use to add a subpanel above a control.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Add Workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Switch Area pop-up menu: Use to add a new workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>address</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: An electronic mail location of a user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Adjust</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: A setting of the MANIPULATION button
(button 2) that assigns the functions of extending a text selection in a text
field
or extending a list selection in a multiple selection list to the point where
the
button is clicked. See <emphasis>ADJUST button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ADJUST button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The button (or virtual button) on a pointing
device
that the user presses to adjust the current selection region in a selection
scope.
It is usually bound to mouse button 1 on a three-button mouse when
augmented by the Shift modifier, but may also be bound to mouse button 2.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>adjust click technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An adjustment technique that adjusts the current
selection region relative to a point indicated.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>adjust swipe technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An adjustment technique that adjusts the current
selection region by moving the mouse or cursor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>adjusted toggling</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Use of an adjustment technique following a selection
technique that toggles the selection state of the identified elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>adjustment policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that determines how the current
selection region is to be adjusted by an adjustment technique&mdash;the three
possibilities are a reselect policy, an enlarge-only policy, or a balance-beam
policy.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>adjustment technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection technique used to adjust the current
selection region.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>alias</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An alternative name or names assigned to a program or to an electronic
mail
address.</para>
<para>2) Mailer: A named electronic mail address for mailing to a group of
users. By
creating an alias for a group of users, you can type one name instead of each
individual name to send electronic mail messages to the group.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>All</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format menu: Use to format an entire document.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>All Day</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: A Calendar appointment option that schedules
an event on your calendar from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>anchor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A position in a collection of selectable objects that
marks one end point of an extended selection range.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>anchor toggle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A discontiguous, mouse-based selection
toggling
technique in which the selection state of the elements in a range is toggled
to
the inverse of the initial state of the anchor element. Compare with <emphasis>full toggle</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>anti-alias</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Visual Design: A technique employed to smooth
the &ldquo;stair-stepped&rdquo; appearance of pixel graphics that include
curved or diagonal lines.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>API</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application program interface. A series of defined interface standards
for an
application. An API typically defines how input should be requested and
obtained, and how output should be done.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>app-defaults file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A file for each application that programmers use to define the X resources.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The preferred term is <emphasis>software application</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The use to which program code is put, such as
payroll
or inventory. &ldquo;Application&rdquo; and &ldquo;product&rdquo; are sometimes
used
interchangeably. Contrast with <emphasis>program</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Application Builder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A software application used for constructing a graphical user interface.
Also
called App Builder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application-defined link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A hyperlink designed especially for invoking some application
behavior.
To invoke the behavior, the help must be displayed in dialog boxes created
by
the application. (Application-defined hyperlinks are ignored by the Help
Viewer.)</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application developer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A person who develops code for a set of programs
that are collectively used as an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application group</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: A folder that holds a specific software application
or set
of software applications.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Online help for a particular application (software).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An <emphasis>action icon</emphasis> that starts an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Application Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that manages the tools and other software
applications available to you.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application modal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A state of a window
that
limits user interactions within windows owned by the same application.
Contrast with <emphasis>system modal</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application root directory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The top level of the hierarchy of desktop configuration files for an
application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>application server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A host computer that provides access to a software application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Apply</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that causes a selection (or group of selections) in a dialog
box to take
effect.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Appointment</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Edit menu: Displays the Appointment Editor, which you can
use to
schedule, change, or delete an appointment on your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Appointment Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Edit: Appointment: Use to schedule, change, or delete an
appointment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Appointment List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Provides a chronological list of appointments by
day,
week, month, or year, depending on the Calendar view displayed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>architectural form</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A set of SGML attributes that provide semantics to arbitrary DTD
elements, such as what is a title, or what is a link.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Archive</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Archive (Tar) action
accepts a
folder argument and archives all of the files it contains together into a
single
tar file. This action uses the <command>tar</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Archive List Contents</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Archive List Contents
(TarList) action lists the files contained in a TAR archive file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Archive Unpack</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Archive Unpack (TarUnpack)
action accepts a TAR file as argument and separates the archived files into
separate files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: A selected portion of the drawing pane in the Icon Editor
primary
window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>area click technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area technique in which two separate mouse
or
keyboard operations are used to indicate the corners of the area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>area inclusion policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that determines whether elements
only partially within an area are included in the current selection region.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>area swipe technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area technique in which the corners of the
rectangular area are indicated by moving the mouse or cursor from one corner
of the rectangle to the other.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>area technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A group selection technique in which the user
selects
elements within a rectangular area by indicating the opposite corners of the
rectangle.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>argument</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>End User: An item of information supplied to an action or command.</para>
<para>ToolTalk<superscript>&reg;</superscript>: Required arguments must always
be included in a ToolTalk
message.</para>
<para>Optional arguments are extra arguments that may be included in a message.
Any optional arguments in a message must be in the specified order, and must
follow the required arguments.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>armed emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: See <emphasis>ready emphasis</emphasis>, which
is the preferred term.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>arrow button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An element of a scroll bar used to scroll a window by small increments.
For
example, if you click once on the up arrow button, the window scrolls one
smallest vertical scrolling increment toward the bottom of the window.</para>
<para>Front Panel: Use these controls to slide a subpanel up from the Front
Panel or
down into the Front Panel.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An activatable element containing an arrow graphic.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>arrow button row</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: The row of subpanel buttons in the Front Panel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>arrow keys</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The four directional keys on a keyboard. Also see <emphasis>navigation
keys</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>As Placed</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: A properties choice for positioning
of
File Manager icons. Use to leave icons where positioned so they do not snap
back in to rows and columns.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Ascending</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: A sort order. Items are arranged
so that
1) names are in alphabetical order when moving from left to right or top to
bottom, or 2) values increase when moving from left to right or top to bottom.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>association</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to make a functional connection between an element and a data object
or
an action object. For example, you can associate an icon and an action so
that
clicking on the icon invokes the action association.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>attachment</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An encapsulated data object inside a document.</para>
<para>2) Mailer: A data object within an electronic mail message that is displayed
as
an icon in the Attachments list. An attachment can be an image, data, or
executable file. Multiple messages can be added (attached) to a single email
message. An attached message is displayed or activated by selecting it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>attribute</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information System: The named value associated with a specific occurrence
of an element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>audible cue</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An audible warning signal.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>augmented toggling</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: In select mode, augmenting mouse-based selection
techniques with the control modifier in order to toggle the identified elements.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Auto Close</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button choice: A type of terminal emulator window
associated with an action that closes automatically when the command
completes execution. Contrast with <emphasis>Manual Close</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Auto Repeat</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Keyboard dialog box: Use to determine whether pressing
and
holding a keyboard character key repeats the character as long as the key
is
pressed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Auto Screen Blanking</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A function that blacks out the screen
after a
specified time has elapsed without user input. Used in systems lacking the
screen lock extensions that enable the automatic starting of screen savers.
This
term is <emphasis>savers</emphasis> in systems that have screen lock extensions.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Auto Track</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Book List window: Options menu: Use to control
whether or not the Information Manager
shows you where you are in the information library hierarchy.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>automatic help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help presented by the system as the result of a particular condition
or error.
Sometimes called &ldquo;system-initiated&rdquo; help. For example, error dialog
boxes are
a form of automatic help. See also <emphasis>semi-automatic help</emphasis>
and <emphasis>manual help</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>automatic stacking order</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A model in which a window or element is raised
to
the top of the stacking order of windows when it gains focus. Contrast with
<emphasis>manual stacking order</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>automounter point</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The intended mount point for the automounter's host map. You
can
also specify this mount point with the environment variable <systemitem class="environvar">DTMOUNTPOINT</systemitem>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>autoscroll</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Scrolling that automatically occurs during a
related
user interaction, such as selection or drag-and-drop transfer.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>available</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: (1) Used to describe a choice that can be activated
or
toggled by a user. (2) Used to describe a control that can be manipulated
by the
user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Backdrop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An image that covers the entire screen and occupies the rearmost
plane of a
workspace. The backdrop is visible as any portion of the screen that is not
covered by an icon, a window, or the Front Panel.</para>
<para>2) End User: The pattern that covers the <emphasis>workspace background</emphasis>.</para>
<para>3) Style Manager: Backdrop dialog box: Provides pattern choices to use
as a
backdrop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>background</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The underlying area of a window on which elements, such as buttons
and
lists, are displayed.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A location within a selection scope not covered
by
any element that can be selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Background (color)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: button label: The color in a color set that is used for
the
background of elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Backtrack</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help Manager: Use to follow links backwards, in the reverse order from
the order in which they were
traversed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BAdjust</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>MANIPULATION button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>balance beam policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>midpoint technique</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Banner Page</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print dialog box: A field for specifying the text that is sent to the
print
command to be used as the title of the print job.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>base (file) name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Create Action: Help: To Create an Action with Create Action: An unqualified
file name; that is, a file name specified without path information.</para>
<para>2) Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: How Image Files Are Found: The first
part of a
file name. File names consist of a base portion, optionally followed by one
or
more suffixes or extensions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Bcc</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: Format: Add Bcc: Use to send a blind carbon
copy
of a mail message to a user or alias. Users listed on the To or Cc will not
see
this user name or alias.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Beep</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Reminders: optional setting: Use to make the system beep
to
remind a user of a calendar appointment.</para>
<para>2) Style Manager: Beep dialog box: Use to set volume, tone, and duration
of the
system beep.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bell</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An ASCII character that is typically used to generate a beep.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Bell Control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: A collection of settings
for
controlling the bell.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Bell Type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to set either an audible
or
visible mode for the bell.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>beneath</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 2: In a file tree, the direction away from the root.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bevel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A technique in which a top shadow and bottom shadow are added to a graphic
to create an illusion of a slanted edge.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BIL file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The file representation of a project. &ldquo;BIL&rdquo;
stands for
Builder Interface Language. <filename>.bil</filename> is appended to the module
name when it is
saved as part of a project. The modules that compose a project are referenced
in
a BIP file. See <emphasis>module file</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>binding</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A mapping of functions to variables, buttons,
or
controls. On a three-button mouse, the virtual buttons BSelect, BTransfer,
and
BMenu are considered to be bound to mouse buttons 1, 2, and 3, respectively,
in CDE.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BIP file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The file representation of a project. &ldquo;BIP&rdquo;
stands for
Builder Interface Project; <filename>.bip</filename> is appended to a project
name when it is saved.
One or more modules are referenced in a BIP file. See <emphasis>project file</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bitmap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An image stored in a raster format. Usually refers to an image limited
to two
colors (a foreground and a background color). Contrast with <emphasis>pixmap</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Application Manager: An action that runs the bitmap client. You can
supply a
file argument, or the action prompts for the width and height for the new
bitmap file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bitmapped font</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A font, with each character made from a matrix of dots, in the format
used to
display it on a graphics display. Bitmapped fonts are typically created for
a
particular point size and display resolution, although they can be used at
other
sizes and resolutions. See <emphasis>font</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BIX file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: A file containing the contents of a BIP file and
all the BIL
files referenced in the BIP file. A BIX file is created when a project is
encapsulated by selecting Save As Encapsulate Project in the Save Project
dialog box (displayed by choosing Save Project or Save Project As from the
File
menu of the App Builder primary window).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Blink Rate</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to control the rate
at which
the cursor blinks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Blinking Cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to turn on or off
the
blinking cursor capability.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BMenu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>MENU button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>book</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An electronic book. See also <emphasis>bookcase</emphasis> and <emphasis>information library</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A group of electronic books on related topics. A logical set of information
(perhaps several related books) that is accompanied by a single full-text
index.
A bookcase and style sheets represent the minimum collection of information
that
can be built into an information library. See also <emphasis>information library</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase DTD</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The document type definition that defines the structure of the specification
files used to build books for the Information Manager. See also
<emphasis>document type definition</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bookcase specification</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An SGML document that contains or specifies the book files, style sheets,
and other SGML entities necessary to build an information library.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>book list</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The list of bookcases and books available from the Information Manager.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Book List window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The Information Manager dialog box that provides access
to information stored in an information library for on-line display or printing.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>bookmark</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An Information Manager marker that end users can create to
annotate specific text or graphics in an information library.
The Information Manager represents a bookmark as an icon in the left
margin of a reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Bookmark Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: The dialog box that appears when
you double-click on a bookmark icon in a reading window. Use to view and edit
existing
bookmarks and notes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Book Tabs</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Use to move to major sections of
a book in an active reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Border Decoration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Window and Session Control: The graphic for the
part of the
window frame that surrounds the client area, title decoration, window menu
button, minimize button, and maximize button.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BottomShadow</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: button label: and Style Manager: Color dialog box: The
color in a
color set that is used for the bottom and right-side beveled edges of raised
elements (such as buttons) and recessed elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>brightness</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Tasks: To Modify a Palette: See <emphasis>value</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>browse</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To scan a collection, such as a database, a File Manager view, a
list box, or a
text file, either for a particular item or for anything that seems to be of
interest;
implies observing rather than changing information.</para>
<para>2) Searching by examining and scrolling through screens or windows of
data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Browse</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: menu-bar item: Use to look at the calendar appointments of
others.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Browse Menu list</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Browse menu:Calendar name menu items.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars: A scrolling list of calendars
you
frequently browse.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>browse selection model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection model in which only a single element
can
be selected, using the browse technique.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>browse technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An individual selection technique in which moving
the mouse or cursor to an element selects it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>browser</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: A window that provides a symbolic, hierarchical
view of a module in a user interface; shows parent-child relationships and groups.
Can be used to find objects in complex modules and to edit a user interface. Also
called <emphasis>module browser</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BSelect</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>SELECTION button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>BTransfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>mouse button 2</emphasis>, <emphasis>Transfer</emphasis>,
and <emphasis>MANIPULATION button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>build mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The default mode, used for building a user interface.
Contrast with <emphasis>test mode</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>built-in icons</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Icon File-Name Conventions: Storing Icon
Files:
Icons that come with the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Busy Light</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: A control that blinks when a Front Panel action has been
invoked
prior to the appearance of a window or when reloading actions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>busy pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The mouse pointer displayed when an application is busy and cannot accept
input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A generic term for a window control. See <emphasis>push button</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>button binding</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Association of a mouse button operation with a particular behavior.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>By Tree</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: A view of a file system or portion
of a
file system in which the folders and files contained within a parent folder
are
shown as linked with lines as in a &ldquo;family tree&rdquo; diagram.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Byte (contents type)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit menu: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: Identifies a contents pattern in a data-type
definition as a single byte.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Calculator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A software application that mimics the function of a hand-held calculator.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Calendar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A software application for scheduling appointments and creating To Do
lists.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Calendar view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: The day, week, month, or year displayed in the main Calendar
window. For navigation, all Calendar views display the Previous view button
(left-pointing arrow), the Today button, and the Next view button (right-
pointing arrow).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>callog file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: The file (<filename>callog.</filename><symbol role="variable">calendarname</symbol>) where Calendar data is stored. See
<filename>rpc.cmsd</filename>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cancel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A push button that removes a window without applying any changes
made
in that window.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Set 22, Message 1: To terminate the execution of a
program.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cannot pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A pointer that is displayed when the specified operation cannot be performed.
For example, a cannot pointer is displayed when you try to drag an object
that
cannot be deleted to the Trash Can.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cascaded control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that is temporarily displayed via a
cascading
choice.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cascaded list, cascaded menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Additional elements displayed by a menu item or list box from which
you
choose in order to interact with other screen elements.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A list or menu that is a spring-loaded, cascaded
control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cascading button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A control that
causes a menu
to drop down from a menu choice.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cascading choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A choice type that, when activated, presents additional related choices.
</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of choice that, when activated, displays
a
cascaded control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>category</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar, Mailer: File: Options dialog box: label: A group of properties
that
can be set.</para>
<para>2) ToolTalk: Attributes of a pattern that indicate whether the application
wants
to handle requests that match the pattern or only observe the requests.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>caution</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A notice to the user about possible loss of data. See also <emphasis>note</emphasis> and <emphasis>warning</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cc:</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: text field: Use to indicate other recipients
you want
to receive a carbon (or courtesy) copy of a mail message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>CDE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Common Desktop Environment, a graphical user interface running on UNIX.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Center</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings: An option that adjusts each line of text
so that
equal space appears on both sides.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Change</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Appointment Editor: button: Use to change an appointment.
</para>
<para>2) Text Editor: Edit: Spell: Misspelled Words dialog box: Use to substitute
a
correctly spelled word for an incorrect one.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>change</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Preferred term is <emphasis>switch to</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Change All</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Edit: Spell: Misspelled Words dialog box: Use to substitute
a
correctly spelled word for each occurrence of an incorrect one.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Change Permissions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected menu: Use to change file or folder permissions.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Change To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Edit: Spell: Misspelled Words dialog box: Use to substitute
a
specified word for an incorrect one.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>check box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A nonexclusive control whose setting is indicated by the presence or
absence of
a check mark. A check box has two states, on and off.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>CheckButton</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>check box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>check mark</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A graphic that indicates that a value choice,
such as a
check box, is set.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Check Spelling</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Check Spelling (Spell)
action checks the spelling of all the words in a file. This action uses the <command>spell</command>
command.</para>
<para>2) Text Editor: Edit menu: Use to check spelling accuracy in a document.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>child process</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 11, message 36: A process started by another process.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An element used to modify or manipulate an object or other element.
Choices can appear: on push buttons&mdash;for example, Print; as menu items&mdash;for
example, Undo; as a label for a control&mdash;for example, Boldface with a
check
box.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An alternative, displayed as a label (text
or
graphics) on the screen, that users can choose. Choices are represented by
controls through which users choose values or invoke actions. For example,
choices can be represented on push buttons, in menu items, with check boxes,
and so on. There are four types of choices: action choices, dialog choices,
cascading choices, and value choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>choose</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To use the mouse or keyboard to pick a menu item, button, or icon that
begins
a command or action. Contrast with <emphasis>select</emphasis>.</para>
<para>When giving instructions to users to choose a menu item, use the format
&ldquo;choose X from the Y menu.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>chord</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To press more than one button on an input device
while the motion of the pointer is within the limits specified by the operating
environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Circle tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to draw a circle.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Clean Up</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: When the Placement preference
is As
Placed, icons that are not placed in grid positions snap back to grid positions.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Clear</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to remove selected icons or data and leave the visible
space
that they occupied.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Appointment Editor: button: Resets the appointment start
and
end times to the defaults and removes the information in the What field. Clear
deselects an appointment if one was selected.</para>
<para>3) Calendar: To Do Editor: button: Resets the Due Date to the default
and
removes the information in the What field. Clear deselects a To Do item if
one
was selected.</para>
<para>4) Text Editor: Edit menu: Use to remove selected text.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Clear Icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to clear the drawing area in the Icon Editor.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>click</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To press and release a mouse button without moving the mouse pointer.
</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To press and release a button on a pointing device
without significantly moving the pointer and within a time specified by the
operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Click In Window To Make Active</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Window dialog box: Setting requiring you to click in
a window
before it can receive the input focus.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Click Volume</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Keyboard dialog box: Use to control the loudness of the
sound
emitted when a key is pressed for systems that permit you to adjust the
volume.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>client</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A system or software application that requests services from another
application, usually across a network.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>client area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The area of a window inside the window frame.
The
client area can contain one or more viewing areas, a menu bar, one or more
palettes, a command area, a status area, and an information area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>clipboard</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A buffer that temporarily stores the last cut, copy, or pasted data.
</para>
<para>2) Application Manager: An action that displays your clipboard using
the
<command>xclipboard</command> command.</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area of storage provided by the operating
system to hold data temporarily.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Clipboard Contents</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Clipboard Contents
(Xclipboard) action displays your clipboard. This action uses the <command>xclipboard</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>clipboard transfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A transfer technique in which the user
is able to
transfer data to and from an intermediate storage area, called a <emphasis>clipboard</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Clock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A software application that displays the time.</para>
<para>2) Front Panel: Control that displays the local time.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Close</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to remove a window and all related secondary windows
from all workspaces.</para>
<para>2) Print Manager: Selected menu: Use to close a printer object so that
any print
jobs in the queue are not shown.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>close callback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: An application function called when a help dialog box is closed.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>code generator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: See <command>dtcodegen</command>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>collection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A group of objects; for example,
a list, the
contents of a File Manager view area, and so on.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Color</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A Style Manager dialog box.</para>
<para>2) An attribute, property, or setting of a visual element that reflects
the hue,
saturation (purity), and value (brightness) of that element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>color buttons</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Style Manager Color Dialog Box: Controls
that
show the color entries in a color palette. The color buttons illustrate the
colors
in a palette and provide a selection mechanism for editing the colors in a
palette.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Color Control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to set window colors.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Color Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color: Modify Color dialog box: Use to modify a color.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>color-rich</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Tasks: To Change the Number of Colors Used by the
Desktop: Having many colors (in reference to applications). See <emphasis>high-color</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>color server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: <filename>dtstyle.msg</filename>:DtMessage 25, an error
message: A part of Session
Manager that is responsible for setting up the number of entries in the color
palette that the desktop uses.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>color set</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color dialog box: A set of five colors associated automatically
with each color button. A color <emphasis>set</emphasis> consists of a color
for <emphasis>Foreground,
Background, Top Shadow, Bottom Shadow</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Select</emphasis>.
These appear as Dynamic
Colors in the Icon Editor window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>colormap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A numerically indexed set of color options in a graphics system.
Although
most display hardware uses only one color map, multiple color maps may exist
in software. Applications may assign one of these maps to be used by the
hardware.</para>
<para>2) Icon Editor: Message 62: An array of color definitions used by applications
to present the colors they display.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>combination box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A combination text-list control in which both
the text field and the list box are visible at all times. Do not use <emphasis>combo box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>combination text-list control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that combines the functions of a text
field
and a list box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>combo box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>End User: Do not use: Use <emphasis>text box</emphasis> to refer to
the text box portion of a
combination box, and <emphasis>list box</emphasis> to refer to the list portion.
</para>
<para>Example: Type the
name of the file in the File text box or select it from the list box underneath.
</para>
<para>See
<emphasis>combination box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>command</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A verbal or typed instruction given to the computer system. Do not use
for a
<emphasis>menu item</emphasis> or <emphasis>choice</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>command area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area in a window that provides a place for
users to
enter commands.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>command box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A combination text-list control that enables
users to
review previous commands in the list box and to reissue a previous command
or to issue a new command entered into the text field.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Command Line Login</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login dialog box: Options menuj: A Login choice that enables the user
to
access a traditional UNIX command-line login.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>command-line prompt</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A prompt (usually <computeroutput>%</computeroutput>, <computeroutput>></computeroutput>, or <computeroutput>$</computeroutput>) that shows the
computer is ready to accept
commands. In a terminal emulation window, you display the command-line
prompt by pressing Return.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compare Calendars</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse menu: Use to find a common time when a group of people
are available.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compare Calendars grid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars: Use to determine available times
for
group appointments. Available times are displayed in the background color;
unavailable or scheduled times are displayed in darker shades as the calendars
overlap.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compare Files</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Compare Files (Diff)
action
compares two files using the <command>diff</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Completed</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: To Do Editor: check box: Use to indicate that a To Do item
has been
completed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>component</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An application that is packaged with the Common Desktop Environment.
See also <emphasis>element</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compose</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: menu-bar item: Use to create a new electronic mail message.
Includes
choices such as Reply, Include, and Forward.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compose window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Window for creating and addressing new electronic mail messages.
Also called the New Message window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compress</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: An action that accepts one or more files and re-encodes
the file in a more compact format using the <command>compress</command> command.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Compress File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Compress File (Compress)
action accepts one or more files and compresses them using the <command>compress</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>configuration file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A file that is used to customize the properties of an application.</para>
<para>File Manager: Set 21, Message 22: A file that controls how the Permissions
dialog box is displayed when accessing different file systems.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Confirmation dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Startup dialog box: A dialog box that asks the user whether
to
proceed with a process. Also, a setting that enables users to select whether
this
dialog box is presented at logout.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>connection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: A programmatic relationship established between
interface objects, wherein an event in a source object triggers an action
on the
target object; used to specify application behavior. Connections are established
in the Connections editor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>connector button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Query Editor: Use to include another term in a
search.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>container</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A control intended to hold objects or data. A folder and a notebook
are
examples of containers.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control whose specific purpose is to hold
and
display objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>context-sensitive help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End User: Help information about the specific choice that the cursor
or
pointer is on. Preferred term is <emphasis>On Item help</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Help: Online information that is relevant to what the user is doing
within an
application. Sometimes pressing the F1 key is referred to as &ldquo;context-sensitive
help&rdquo; because the choice of help topic is based on the user's context.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>contexts</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Associates arbitrary pairs (that is, <emphasis>name. value</emphasis> pairs) with ToolTalk
messages and patterns.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>contiguity policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy (used primarily in text) that
specifies whether a selection scope allows discontiguous selections.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Continue</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that resumes a process, which has been interrupted by the operating
environment, so that you can proceed as originally requested.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>contract</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Use the Folder Tree View: In a directory
tree
view, to close a folder (shown as a &ldquo;branch&rdquo; in the tree) to hide
any files or
folders that it may contain. See <emphasis>expand</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A generic term for a variety of elements (such as buttons, check
boxes, and
scroll bars) that perform an action or indicate an option setting.</para>
<para>2) Front Panel: Describes an object in the Front Panel. Avoid using
this term if
possible; instead, name the specific control, for example, the Printer control
in
the Front Panel. See <emphasis>Front Panel control</emphasis>.</para>
<para>3) Application Builder: Any of the objects&mdash;buttons, menus, lists,
text fields,
and the like&mdash;that are dragged from the Controls palette of the primary
window and dropped on a control pane.</para>
<para>4) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visually recognizable element or group of
elements that the user interacts with in a well-defined way. In documentation,
avoid using this term if possible; instead, describe the specific type of
control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>control integration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Indicates a group of tools working together toward a common
end
without direct user intervention.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>control navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Navigation among controls within a <emphasis>tab group</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>control pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the objects that is dragged from the Panes
palette
of the primary window and dropped on a window; controls are dropped on a
control pane.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Controls palette</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The primary window palette that contains control
objects&mdash;buttons, check boxes, lists, text fields, and the like. See <emphasis>palette</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Copies</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings dialog box: Use
to specify
the number of copies to print of a calendar view or list. See <emphasis>Units</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Copy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to copy a selected icon or data item.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Copy As Link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected menu: To create a link to
another object that represents this file or folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Copy To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Mailer: Message: Copy To: Use to move a duplicate of a mail message
to a
folder.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Selected menu: Use to copy a file or folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Copy to Main Panel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Subpanel control pop-up menu: A choice on a subpanel control's
pop-up menu that is used to copy the control into the Front Panel, replacing
the current Front Panel control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>count policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that specifies whether more
than
one element at a time can be selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Count Words</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Count Words (Wc) action
counts the lines, words, and characters in files. This action uses the <command>wc</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Create</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to open a new instance of an object.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Create Action</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that enables users to associate an icon with
a
command so that the command can be issued by clicking the icon. Create
Action is also used to define specific data types for an application's data
files
and to associate icons with those data types.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Create Bookmark</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create a blank
bookmark
within a section in an active reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Create Note</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create an annotated
bookmark
within a section in an active reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cross-volume hyperlink</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A hyperlink that jumps to a topic in a different help volume.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current item, current selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The currently highlighted item in a list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The elements selected within a specified selection
scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current selection region</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The elements in a selection scope identified
by the
most recently used selection technique in that scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The session saved by Session Manager when you log off. At the next login,
unless you specify otherwise, this session automatically opens, enabling work
to continue where you left off. Contrast with <emphasis>home session</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current setting</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The present state of a control such as a check box or radio button.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>current workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The workspace that is presently displayed on the screen. It can be changed
with the <emphasis>workspace switch</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A graphical device that shows the area that will receive keyboard or
pointing
device input. See <emphasis>text cursor</emphasis>, <emphasis>location cursor</emphasis>, and <emphasis>pointer</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cursor Control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to control characteristics
of
the cursor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cursor Key Mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to switch between
normal
mode and application mode to map cursor key escape sequences.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cursor Style</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialgo box: Use to change the cursor
style.
Possible values are: box, underline, or invisible.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>cursored element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The element that the cursor is over.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>custom dialog</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of three types of windows on the Windows palette
of
the primary window. It consists of a window area where containers or panes
can be dropped and a button panel with three buttons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>customization</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The process of changing settings to alter the appearance and behavior
of the
desktop and applications running on the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Cut</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to remove a selected item and place it onto the clipboard.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>data element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element whose appearance represents its contents;
for example, a character or a number.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>DATA_HOST</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An attribute added to the <filename>DATA_ATTRIBUTES</filename> entry
that indicates the host
system that the DataType was loaded from. Note that this value should not
be
set in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files but is generated when the database
is loaded.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>data object</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An object, such as a document, that contains data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>data type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A mechanism that associates particular data files with the appropriate
applications and actions. Data types can determine the type of a file based
on
file-naming conventions, such as a particular suffix name, or on the contents
of
the file.</para>
<para>2) Create Actions: radio button: A classification of files into groups
to associate
those groups with actions. Data typing may be performed based on the file
name, path, permissions and/or contents.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>database host</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A host computer where an action is defined.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Date</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Appointment Editor: Date field: Use to enter the date on
which an
appointment is scheduled.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: View: Go to Date dialog box: Use to set the calendar to
display a
specific date.</para>
<para>3) Calendar: Find: Date label: The date on which an appointment was
found.</para>
<para>4) Calendar: To Do Editor: Due Date field: Use to indicate the date
by which a
To Do list item should be finished.</para>
<para>5) Mailer: Header window: Shows the date and time an incoming message
arrived.</para>
<para>6) Mailer: View menu: Use to sort email messages by date/time.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Date control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Control that displays the date. Clicking this control starts
the
Calendar software application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Date Format</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Use to specify the order of date
components
and the date separator.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Date Ordering</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Date Format: control: Use to choose
the
order of month, day, and year date components in your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Date Separator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Date Format: control: Use to choose
the
character separating individual date components in your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Day</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Changes the Calendar view to display the selected
day.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Day boundaries</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Display Settings: label: The start
and end of
a working calendar day, for example, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. The day boundaries
can be set from 0 hours (midnight) to 2300 hours (11:00 pm) and are user-
definable.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Day view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Displays the appointments in a calendar day using the day
boundary (time) settings from the Display Settings property window. The
display can be changed with the Previous view (left) or Next view (right)
arrows or by choosing Week, Month, or Year view. Day view also displays a
three-month mini-calendar containing day and month buttons for navigation.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>default</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A value set automatically by an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>default action</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A choice that is activated when you press the Return key, double-click
the
<emphasis>MANIPULATION button</emphasis> on an object, or directly manipulate
an object. The
action that the designers expect you are most likely to want in the given
situation.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The action that a user would most likely want
to
invoke in the given situation. The default action can be activated when the
user
double-clicks the SELECT button or presses Return, Ctrl+Return or Enter on
the keypad.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>default emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A choice that the application developer chooses
to be
selected when the user first sees it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Default View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Display Settings dialog box: Use
to set your
preferred calendar view (Day, Week, Month, or Year) to be displayed at startup.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>delete</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To remove an element or group of elements from a list, view, container,
or
workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Delete</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to remove an element or group of elements from a list,
view,
container, or workspace.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Appointment and To Do Editors button: Use to delete an
appointment or To Do item.</para>
<para>3) Style Manager: Color dialog box: Used to remove an element or group
of
elements from a list, view, container, or workspace. To remove a palette from
the palette list.</para>
<para>4) Mailer: Message menu: Use to remove a selected message from the Inbox.
You can undelete or &ldquo;bring back&rdquo; a deleted message if you have
not yet clicked
Save Changes or Done. See <emphasis>Undelete</emphasis>, <emphasis>Last</emphasis>, <emphasis>Undelete From List.</emphasis></para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Delete Hot Spot</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to remove a hot spot from a mouse pointer
image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Delete Subpanel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: pop-up menu item: Use to delete the selected subpanel.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Delete Workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: pop-up menu item: Use to delete a selected workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Descending</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: A sort order. Items are arranged
so that
names are in reverse alphabetical order when moving from left to right or
top
to bottom, or values decrease when moving from left to right or top to bottom.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Deselect</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to remove highlighting or some other visual cue from
a
previously selected item or element, such as removing highlighting from an
item in a list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Deselect All</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An action that deselects all the objects or data in a window</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>deselection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The process of removing selection emphasis from
a
previously selected element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>deselection policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that determines whether the
user is
allowed to deselect all elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use this term only when referring to the CDE product, as in &ldquo;the
Common Desktop
Environment&rdquo; or &ldquo;when working in a desktop environment.&rdquo;
See <emphasis>workspace</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>desktop icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. The preferred term is <emphasis>workspace object</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Desktop Introduction</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel control: Use to display an overview of the desktop. Also,
the help
topic that introduces the basic features of the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>desktop object</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. The preferred term is <emphasis>workspace object</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>desktop session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>session</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Destination</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: control: Use
to specify
whether a calendar view or list is printed to a file or on a printer.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: The target file or folder that receives data in a data
transfer
operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Destroy Deleted Messages</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Mailbox menu: Permanently deletes a message. If you destroy
a
message, you cannot get it back. Destroying a message is a two-step process:
first delete the message, then destroy (purge) it permanently.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Detach Graphic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: menu item: Use to copy a selected
graphic image into a separate window called a Detached Graphic window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Detached Graphic icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: An icon that marks where a graphic has been detached.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Detached Graphic window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: The window dialog box that
appears when you detach a graphic.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>details view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A view of a container in which details associated
with
each object displayed are presented in columns, and in which hierarchical
relations are identified by indentation within the first column, which identifies
the objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>device</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A physical or logical device (such as a printer,
scanner,
mouse, or joystick) that is accessible from the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dialog</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The sequence of operations performed by a user and the responses
made by
the user interface. Do not use to refer to a dialog box (secondary window).
When referring to a secondary window, the correct end-user term is &ldquo;dialog
box.&rdquo; See <emphasis>dialog box</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A specialized interaction with the user that
occurs
in a secondary window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A window displayed by an application that requires user input. Do
not use
&ldquo;dialog&rdquo; as shorthand. <emphasis>Dialog box</emphasis> is the
preferred CDE term. See <emphasis>secondary
window</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: See <emphasis>custom dialog</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>DialogBox</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>dialog box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Digital Clock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Digital Clock (Xclock)
action
displays a digital clock. This action uses the <command>xclock -digital</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dialog cache</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A list of help dialogs that have been created but may not be in
use. When
the application needs a new help dialog, it first searches its dialog cache
for an
unused dialog. If one is found, it is used. Otherwise, all dialogs are in
use, so a
new one is created.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dialog choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of choice used to display a dialog box
to gather
parameters for invocation of an action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dimmed</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Reduced contrast to show unavailable emphasis.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dimmed emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: See <emphasis>unavailable emphasis</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>direct manipulation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A transfer technique that allows
the user to perform actions on elements by interacting directly
with the elements. An example is dragging an element with a mouse
and dropping it onto another element. See also <emphasis>indirect
manipulation</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>directory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A collection of files and other subdirectories. Use <emphasis>directory</emphasis> for command-
line arguments and when discussing the concept of the file system hierarchy
as
represented in path statements and fully qualified file names. Folder is
the preferred term for end-user audiences and when discussing directories
in a
graphical user interface. See <emphasis>folder</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: Directories are information containers, like
files.
However, instead of text or other data, directories contain files and other
directories. In addition, directories are hierarchically organized; that is,
a
directory has a parent directory &ldquo;above&rdquo; and may also have subdirectories
&ldquo;below.&rdquo; Similarly, each subdirectory can contain other files
and also can have
more subdirectories. Because they are hierarchically organized, directories
provide a logical way to organize files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>discontiguous selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: Selection techniques that enable the user
to select
multiple elements that are not necessarily adjacent in a collection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Disk Usage</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Disk Usage (Df) action
displays the amount of free space available on all mounted disks. This action
uses the <command>df</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To present a menu or window on the screen.</para>
<para>2) Hardware device for presenting visual information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>display-dependent session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A session that is saved for a particular display.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>display-independent session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A session that can be restored on any display, regardless of screen
resolution or
color capability.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Display Settings</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Use to set the calendar location,
the time of
day you want your calendar to begin and end, 12- or 24-hour display, the
default calendar view (day, week, month, or year), and the calendar you want
displayed each time you start Calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>DND</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop. Do not use. Use <emphasis>drag
and drop</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>document</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An object that contains the user's data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>document instance</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The SGML source for a document, including the document content and the
SGML markup.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>document type definition (DTD)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A standard generalized markup language (SGML) specification that defines
the
structure of a document. The DTD defines a set of element tags and dictates
how the tags can be used to create a document.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>double-click</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To quickly press a mouse button twice without moving the mouse pointer.
Unless otherwise specified, mouse button 1 is assumed.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: To press and release a button on a pointing
device
twice without significantly moving the pointer and within a time specified
by
the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>double-click speed</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: The speed at which two clicks must be made in order
to
be interpreted by the system as one double-click rather than as two single
clicks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>double-press</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To perform one click with a pointing device followed
by a press without significantly moving the pointer and within a time specified
by the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To press and hold down any mouse button while moving the pointer&mdash;and
the object under the pointer&mdash;on the screen.</para>
<para>2) Style Manager: mouse, Notice (on changing mouse button 2 settings):
Moving objects by pointing to an object, pressing a mouse button, and moving
the mouse while holding the button down.</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A user interaction in which elements or their
representations change their position or appearance in conjunction with the
movement of the pointer.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag and drop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To directly manipulate an icon by using a pointing device to move and
place
the icon somewhere else. Also referred to as &ldquo;drag transfer.&rdquo;
</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A user interaction in which a user drags source
elements to a target element on which they are dropped.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag-and-drop API</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The Motif API that defines functions for exchanging information between
applications by direct manipulation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag-over feedback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Drag and Drop: The changes in appearance of the drag icon when the user
drags it over potential drop zones.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag transfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>drag and drop</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drag-under feedback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Drag and Drop: The appearance provided by a drop zone. The feedback
can be
a solid line drawn around the site, a raised or lowered surface with a beveled
edge around the drop zone, or a pixmap drawing over the drop zone.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>draw area pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the panes in the Panes palette of the primary
window. It consists of a drawing area and horizontal and vertical scroll bars.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drawing area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Tasks: To Start Icon Editor: The data pane in Icon
Editor in
which images are drawn.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Drag and Drop: After starting a drag of an object, the act of releasing
the
mouse button. If the object is dropped in an appropriate area, an action is
initiated.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A user action that terminates a drag, identifying
the
destination of the drag-and-drop interaction as the element under the pointer.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop-down combination box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A control that combines a text field and a drop-down list. The list
is hidden
until you take an action to make it visible. A drop-down combination box
contains a list of objects or choices that you can scroll through and select
from
to complete the text field. Alternatively, you can type text directly into
the text
field.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A combination text-list control in which the
text
field is always visible, but the list box is hidden until the user performs
an
action to display it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop-down list</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A combination text-list control that contains
a text-
display field that is always visible and in which the list box is hidden until
the
user performs an action to display it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop site</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A location that accepts the drop
of an object.
A drop site may be a window, field, icon, or other element. Compare with <emphasis>drop
target</emphasis>. Preferred term is <emphasis>drop zone</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop target</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Drag and Drop: A rectangular graphic that represents the drop zone in
an
application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>drop zone</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An area of the workspace (including the Trash Can, Printer, and Mailer
controls) that accepts a dropped icon. Icons can be dropped on the workspace
for quick access.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Droppable Data Type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: radio button label in Advanced area: The data type of
an object
that may be dragged and dropped on an action. In Create Action, a field for
specifying the data types that may be dropped on an action icon.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dtcodegen</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The &ldquo;backend&rdquo; code generator; can be
invoked from
within Application Builder by selecting Code Generator from the File menu
or
typing on the command line. Reads a BIP file and any BIL files referenced
in
the BIP file and produces C code. See the <command>dtcodegen</command> man
page for command-
line arguments. See <emphasis>BIL file</emphasis>, <emphasis>BIP file</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Due Date</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View: To Do Editor: Use to schedule a date when a task should
be
completed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Duration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Style Manager: Beep dialog box: A period of time. Use to specify
the
duration of the system beep.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Editor Defaults: Default length
for all
appointments, in minutes. Individual appointments can be set to any length
using the Appointment Editor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Dynamic Colors</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: The color set associated with the primary window background
color that is modifiable through the Style Manager Color dialog box. The
dynamic colors are those used for the foreground (text), background, top
shadow, bottom shadow, selected areas, and a &ldquo;transparent&rdquo; color.
Icon Editor
provides a palette of dynamic colors to use in drawing an image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>dynamic message patterns</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Provides message pattern information while your ToolTalk
application is running.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>edict</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A ToolTalk notice that looks like a ToolTalk request. For example, if
a request
returns no data (or if the sender does not care about the returned data),
you
can use an edict to broadcast that request to a set of tools. Since the message
is
a notice, no data will be returned, no replies will be received, and the sender
is
not told whether any tool receives the message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Edit Bitmap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Edit Bitmap (Bitmap)
action
runs the bitmap client. You can supply a file argument, or be prompted for
the
width and height for the new bitmap file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Edit Dtwmrc</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Edit Dtwmrc (DtwmrcEdit)
action opens a copy of <symbol>HomeDirectory</symbol><filename>/.dt/dtwmrc</filename> in your system editor (the
editor specified by the EDITOR environment variable). If <symbol>HomeDirectory</symbol><filename>/.dt/dtwmrc</filename>
does not exist, the action creates the file by
copying <filename>/usr/dt/config/</filename> of <symbol>language</symbol><filename>/sys.dtwmrc</filename>. When you save the file
and exit the editor, you must restart the Workspace Manager by choosing
Restart Workspace Manager from the Workspace menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Edit</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu-bar item: Use to provide access to other menu items that enable
you to
modify data. Contrast with <emphasis>Close</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Edit List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars: button: Use to display the Menu
Editor
to edit the list of calendars that are available for browsing or comparing.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Editor Defaults</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Use to set the default appointment
duration,
start time, reminders, and privacy in the Appointment Editor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End User: A generic term for any entity that can be considered a
standalone
item in a broader context, such as an item in a list or a control in a window.
</para>
<para>2) Help: A logical portion of information, such as a book title, a paragraph,
a
list, or a topic. Normally, the extent of an element is marked by <emphasis>tags</emphasis>, although
the tags for some elements are assumed by context.</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A distinguishable part of a user interface.
For
example, an element can be an object, choice, control, or part of a control.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>element cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue that highlights an entire element
(or its
border) to indicate that the user's keyboard operations will interact with
that
element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Ellipse tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to draw an ellipse.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>email</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Short name for &ldquo;electronic mail.&rdquo; Email usually describes
text messages
addressed and sent to you electronically and are received in your electronic
mailbox. Sometimes just known as &ldquo;mail.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End user: An element of text that calls attention to the text (usually
by being
formatted as <emphasis>italic</emphasis>).</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: Highlighting, color change, or other visual
indication of the condition of an element or choice, and the effect of that
condition on the user's ability to interact with it. Emphasis can also give
the
user additional information about the state of an element or choice. In
documentation, refer to the specific type of emphasis, such as &ldquo;selected
emphasis.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>End</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: field: Use to set the time a calendar
appointment ends. See <emphasis>Start</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>End-of-line Wrapping</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: A setting for enabling
or
disabling wrapping the cursor to the next line.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>end-point inclusion policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that specifies whether an
area will
be enlarged to include the elements at the corners of an identified area.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>end user</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: The user who employs an application
to
perform some work task.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>enlarge-only policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An adjustment policy in which the current selection
region is enlarged, but never shrunk, to include the final point identified
by an
adjustment technique.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>entity</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A text string or file with a name. Most entities are named by
the author
(using the &lt;!entity> element), but some entities are predefined. See also
<emphasis>entity declaration</emphasis> and <emphasis>entity reference</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>entity declaration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: Markup that establishes an entity name and its value. See also <emphasis>entity</emphasis> and
<emphasis>entity reference</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>entity reference</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: Use of an entity name preceded by an ampersand (<filename>&amp;</filename>) and followed by a
semicolon (<filename>;</filename>) that indicates that the entity is to be
inserted where the entity
name appears. See also <emphasis>entity</emphasis> and <emphasis>entity declaration</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>entry point</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A point within a help volume that may be displayed directly as
the
result of a request for help. That is, a topic where the user may &ldquo;enter&rdquo;
or begin
reading online help. Any topic, or location within a topic, that has an ID
can
become an entry point.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>environment variables</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Environment Variables
(Env) action displays the user's environment variables using the <command>env</command>
command.</para>
<para>2) Icon Editor: Help: Reference: Icon Search Paths: Standard UNIX variables
that are used by the shell and applications.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Eraser tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to erase portions of an image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>error message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of action message that requires the user's
immediate attention. Error messages are used to convey a message about a
user error.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>etch</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Visual Design: A CDE icon design style that uses
shadow
effects to create the illusion that the icon is embossed into its background,
typically used in the Front Panel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Everyone's</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View: Set Options: Jobs to Show: Use to specify that
the jobs of
all users are to be shown in print queue displays. (This control may not be
implemented.)</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Exact Match</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: Printers: Find: A setting in a search dialog box that
specifies
that alphabetic characters in potential target strings must have the same
case
(upper or lowercase) as the corresponding characters in the search string
to be
considered as a match. Compare with <emphasis>Ignore Case</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>example listing</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A body of text in which line breaks are left as they are and which
is
displayed in a computer font. The text is typically an example of a portion
of a
computer file. Example listings are entered using the &lt;programlisting>,
&lt;literallayout>, or &lt;example> elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>exception</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An event or situation that prevents, or could
prevent,
an action requested by a user from being completed in a manner that the user
would expect. Exceptions frequently occur when an application is unable to
interpret a user's input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>execute</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A file or folder access permission. For files, execute permission enables
the user
to run a program or shell script file. For folders, execute permission enables
the
user to access the folder contents.</para>
<para>When referring to initiating an action, application, or script, the
preferred term
is <emphasis>run</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Execute Command</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Execute Command
(ExecuteCmd) action prompts for a command and then executes it on any files
that are supplied as arguments.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>execution host</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A host computer where an application that is invoked by an action runs.
This
may be the same computer where the action resides, or it may be another
computer on the network.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Exit</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that ends the current application and all windows associated
with it.
This action is equivalent to closing all primary windows of the application
and
ending the application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Exit button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel control: Use to log out of the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>expand</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Use the Folder Tree View: In a directory
tree
view, to open a folder (shown as a &ldquo;leaf&rdquo; in the tree) to reveal
any files or
folders that it may contain. See <emphasis>contract</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>expand button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Common Dialogs: The control in an expandable
window that
is used to display and remove a secondary pane. The control can have a set
of
labels that toggle, such as More/Less or Expand/Contract.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>expandable window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Common Dialogs: A window that allows users to selectively
display advanced or application-specific functionality in a separate portion
of the window that is normally not visible when the window is initially displayed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>expert action</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An action invoked by double-clicking a tool to perform a function that
is a special case of the actions that might be performed with the tool. For example,
if the user double-clicks an eraser tool, the whole viewing area is erased.
Expert actions provide shortcuts for functions available by other methods.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>expire (password)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login: Message set 2: Message 4: For a password to become invalid due
to the
passage of a defined period of time.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>explicit focus</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A focus policy in which the user must explicitly
indicate which window or control receives input focus. Also referred to as
&ldquo;click-to-type&rdquo; focus. Contrast with <emphasis>implicit focus</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>extended selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>You can add multiple items to a selected set by augmenting the selection
technique. For example, you can add to a selection by moving the pointer to
a
new item and pressing Control and the SELECT mouse button simultaneously.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>extended selection model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection model in which any number of elements
can be selected, and in which select mode and normal mode are the default
modes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>extension</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Preferred term is suffix.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>extension model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>adjustment technique</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>fail a request</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Informs a sending ToolTalk application that the requested
operation
cannot be performed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Failsafe Session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login dialog box: Options: Session: A Login choice that starts a session
using a
simple terminal emulator to perform configuration tasks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>fd</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk file descriptor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>feedback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A visible or audible indication
that a user
action has been accepted by the computer.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A window element that holds data, as in the Name text field or the Telephone
number text field. Preferred: Use a more specific noun to describe the element,
as the Name text field or the Files list box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>figure</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A graphic or illustration that appears in the help information.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu-bar item: Use to provide access to other menu items that enable
you to
work with the data in the window as a whole.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A unit of data (such as text, program, image, and so on) that is stored
in a
folder (directory).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file attribute</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 21, Message 15, a file properties error message: Stored
information on a file such as permissions, size, or last modification date.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>File Contents</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File: Find: Find Files or Directories dialog box: text
field: Use to
enter a string. Find then searches file and directory contents to match the
string.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file extension</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Suffix</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>File Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application used to manage the files and folders on your
system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>File Manager view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An open File Manager window showing folder (directory) contents.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>File Manager View window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Save Default Settings: An instance of an open File
Manager window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The name of a file as it is stored in a folder or on a storage device.
A file
name consists of a base name and any extensions. A fully qualified file name
also includes the path.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: File: New File: Use to enter the name of a file. Find
then
searches to find a file or directory that matches the name.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The path to the file contained on the host.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file selection dialog</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A dialog box through which the user specifies
a file
name.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: One of the objects on the windows palette of
the
primary window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A host computer that stores data files used by applications.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>file type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Characteristics of a file that determine how it is used. The type of
a file may be
determined by a portion of its name (for example, the file extension) or by
its
content.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Files Found</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File: Find: Find Files or Directories dialog box: scrolling
list:
Displays a list of files that matched the search criteria.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Fill Solids</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: radio button: Use to draw a closed figure, such as a circle,
polygon, or triangle, and fill it with the selected color. When Fill Solids
is off,
only the border of the figure is drawn in the selected color.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Filter</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Use to display only objects that meet certain criteria, such as a
name pattern
match, and to hide all other objects from view.</para>
<para>2) File Selection dialog box: Text field used for specifying a name
pattern so
that only objects that match that pattern are shown.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Find</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Uses criteria you specify to search for an item or search
within
an item displayed in the associated window.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: View: Find: Use text as criteria to search for an appointment
in
your calendar.</para>
<para>3) File Manager: File menu: Use to search for a file or folder.</para>
<para>4) Text Editor: Use to find specified text.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Find Backward</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Option: Use to search from the present location backward towards the
beginning of the list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Find Forward</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Option: Use to search from the present location forward toward the end
of the
list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Find Set</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: button label: A file selection box that is used to locate
and select
a set (small, large, and Front Panel) of icons for use by the Create Action
software application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>first-letter cursor navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An internal navigation technique in which typing
a
character navigates and selects the next element in a control whose textual
label begins with that character.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Flash</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Reminders: optional setting: Use to make the minimized
Calendar
icon flash when it is displayed.</para>
<para>2) Mailer:Mailbox: Mail Options: Category: Mailer Header List: Use to
signal
the arrival of new mail.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Flip Area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to create a mirror image of a selected area
and
delete the original area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Flood tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to fill a closed area with a selected
color after the
figure has been created.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>focus</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The place to which keyboard input is directed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>focus emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of emphasis that indicates the current
location
for keyboard input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>focus-only navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Navigation in which the user can move focus to
a
control without interacting with that control, for example, without activating
a
push button.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>focus policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A means of determining which element or window
receives input focus. See <emphasis>explicit focus</emphasis> and <emphasis>implicit focus</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An icon that represents a directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Folder Size</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Folder Size (DuSort)
action
displays the size of each file and subfolder within a folder. This action
uses a
combination of the <command>du</command> and <command>sort</command> commands.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>font</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A complete set of characters (letters, digits, and special characters)
of one size
and one typeface. Ten-point Helvetica bold is an example of a font. Also in
Style Manager: Font dialog box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Font List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Font List (Xlsfonts)
action
lists all the fonts that can be displayed on your system. This action uses
the
<command>xlsfonts</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Font Preview</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Font Preview (Xfd) action
prompts for a font name and then display all the characters in the font. This
action uses the <command>xfd</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Font Size</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options menu: Use to change the size of the font.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>footer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>message area</emphasis>, <emphasis>information area</emphasis>,
and <emphasis>status area</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>For</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor, Group Appointment Editor, and To Do Editor:
Frequency: setting: Use to set the number of times you want a calendar
appointment to repeat. See <emphasis>Repeat</emphasis>, <emphasis>Frequency</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>foreground</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The content of a window and the color or shading used to distinguish
it from
the window's background.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Foreground (color)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: button label: The color in a color set that is used for
text. The
Foreground color is always either black or white, depending upon the
brightness of the corresponding background color. Icon Editor supplies
Foreground color in its palette of drawing colors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>formal markup</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A tag set and accompanying usage rules that are specified in the
DocBook
document type definition (DTD). By following the rules set forth in the
DTD, an author can produce SGML (standard generalized markup language)
compliant help source files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Format</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Use to change the document format.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Forward Message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose menu: Use to send an existing mail message (from your
mailbox) to the users (addresses) you type in.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>framing rectangle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A highlighted rectangle used to indicate
the
current scope of a range selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>free colors</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Getting Started with Icon Editor: Colors
that are
available from the color server.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Frequency</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor, Group Appointment Editor, and To Do Editor:
optional setting: Consists of the Occurs and For menus; settings for specifying
repeating calendar appointments or To Do items. See <emphasis>Repeat</emphasis>, <emphasis>For</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>From</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: text field: Use to show the email address of
the
sender of the message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A centrally located window containing controls for accessing applications
and
utilities, including the <emphasis>workspace switch</emphasis>. The Front
Panel occupies all
workspaces.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: An object in the Front Panel used as an interface to basic
system services and frequently performed tasks and operations. Use the specific
control name where appropriate. Controls in the default Front Panel are: the
Clock control, the Calendar control, the File Manager control, the Text Editor
control, the Mailer control, the Printer control, the Style Manager control,
the Application Manager control, the Information Manager control, and the Trash Can
control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel Help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information: subpanel control: Use to display information about the Front Panel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel Lock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A group of controls that define the
choice of lock backgrounds and their durations. Used in systems that do not have the
screen lock extensions that enable the automatic starting of screen savers.
This term is <emphasis>Screen Saver</emphasis> in systems that have screen lock
extensions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Front Panel move handles</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: An area on each end of the Front Panel used for moving
the Front Panel and for bringing it to the front of the workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>full color</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Getting Started with Icon Editor: All colors
that
are defined for an image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>full toggle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A discontiguous, mouse-based selection
toggling
technique in which the selection state of each element in the range is toggled.
Compare with <emphasis>anchor toggle</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>fully qualified file name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The name of a file, including the complete path to the file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>fully qualified path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager Help: File Manager Concepts: The Hierarchical File System:
A
path specification starting with the root directory or folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>gauge</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that displays a value that the user
cannot
change directly. For example, a gauge can be used to display the percentage
complete in an in-progress message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>general help window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A window in which help information is displayed. General help
windows have a menu bar, a Topic Tree (which provides a list of topics), and
a
help topic display area. See also <emphasis>quick help window</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Global</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Use to set characteristics of the Terminal application.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>graphical map</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: A visual representation of a book's organizational
structure in which the book's section titles are displayed as a graphical "tree".</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Go</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Go menu: Use to navigate sequentially
through
an information library or to return to sections you've previously read.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Go Home</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: Use to change from the current folder to the
home
folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Go To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Button or menu item: Use to display a dialog box through which you
can
specify where in the application you want to go.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: File menu: Use to specify a path description to change
the
current File Manager view to a different folder (directory).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Go to Date</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Use to find an appointment by date.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Go Up</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File menu: Use to change from the current folder to the
folder
above it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Grab Color</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color: Modify Color dialog box: Use to choose a color
directly
by moving the pointer to a screen region with the desired color and pressing
the SELECT button.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>grab handles (or handles)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The small squares displayed at the corners and midpoints of a selected
graphic
element.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Grab Screen Image</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to capture the image displayed in a region
on the
screen and bring it into the Icon Editor drawing area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>graphic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A symbolic representation of a non-object choice. Contrast with <emphasis>icon</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A pictorial presentation or image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Graphical (window)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button choice: A type of window that graphical
actions
run in. Also known as an X-Window. Create Action allows the user to specify
a
graphical window for certain actions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>graphics cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A cursor that identifies an x,y location within
a
selection scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>graphics normal mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The normal mode used in conjunction with selection
scopes that use a graphics cursor and in which navigation does not affect
the
current selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>grayed</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use; use <emphasis>inactive</emphasis> or <emphasis>unavailable</emphasis>. See <emphasis>dimmed</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>grayscale display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Icon Design Recommendations: A monitor
capable of presenting a variety of shades of gray.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>grid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An array of locations, sometimes invisible, that you can use to align
objects to
those locations.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>group</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A collection of users who are referred to by a common name. Determines
a
user's access to files.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: Two or more user interface objects that are
selected in a
user interface and made part of a group for layout, visibility, or
internationalization purposes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>group appointment</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: An appointment for a group of people, scheduled using the
Group
Appointment Editor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Group Appointment Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars dialog box: Schedule button: Use
to
display multiple calendars to determine available meeting times. Shaded areas
in the grid represent busy times; unshaded areas represent available times.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>group box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A box in a dialog box that visually associates a set of controls.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>group heading</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A textual label that identifies a group of related
fields.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Group Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected: Change Permissions: Use to specify the name
of a
group.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>group selection technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection technique that identifies a group
of
elements in a selection scope whose selection state is to be affected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>GUI</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Graphical user interface.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Handedness</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: Use this setting to specify right-
or left-
handed mouse control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>handle a message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: To perform the operation requested by the sending application;
to
send a ToolTalk reply to a request.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>handler</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The distinguished recipient procid of a ToolTalk request.
This procid
must complete the indicated operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>handles</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>grab handles</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Hard Reset</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Reset menu: Use to send the control sequence to force
a
reload of the default behavior and to clear all previous settings.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>header</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File Manager: Header describes one of the two possible ways of displaying
the current path directory (complete path name or icons).</para>
<para>2) Mailer: The basic information about an electronic mail message as
it appears
in the mailbox. A message header displays the name of the sender, subject,
the
date and time it was received, and message size.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Header field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: The To, From, Subject, and Cc: lines of a message.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Headers</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: Information at the top of a window
body (below the title bar and menu bar) that serves as a heading for the
window contents. In File Manager, <emphasis>headers</emphasis> refers to iconic
path information and
textual path information optionally presented above the view area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Button or menu item: Use to access information about objects, choices,
tasks,
and products.</para>
<para>2) Dialog box button: Use to access information about the information
or error
message in the dialog box.</para>
<para>3) Menu-bar item: Use to provide access to online help for the application.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help callback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: An application function called when the user presses the F1 key.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help family</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A volume or set of <emphasis>help volumes</emphasis> that provide online
information about related
applications. A help family must have a family file to enable the information
to
display in the help index volume.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Help Index</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A list of important words and phrases that appear throughout a help
volume.
The index is an alphabetical list of words or phrases that can be searched
to
find help on a subject. The help system displays the index when the user clicks
the Index button in a general help dialog box. See also <emphasis>Index Search
dialog box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help index volume</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The volume that lists the online help installed and available
to you on the system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help key</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A designated key, usually the F1 key, used to request online help
information about the item with the current highlight focus.</para>
<para>2) Help: Some keyboards have a dedicated &ldquo;Help&rdquo; key that
may take the place
of F1. In Motif applications, the help key is enabled by adding a <emphasis>help callback</emphasis> to a widget.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Help Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information:subpanel control: Use to display the list of help families available
on the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Help Viewer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that displays online help.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help volume</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A complete body of help information about a subject.</para>
<para>2) Help: Either the set of source files that contain the marked-up text
or the
run-time files generated by running the <command>dtdocbook</command> command.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>help window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A secondary window that displays help information.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Hertz</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Beep Dialog Box: A measure of frequency
equal to the number of cycles per second.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hidden</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A state in which an element is not displayed on the screen.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: message line: The state or status of a file or folder
when it is
not visible in a File Manager view. Files and folders may be hidden or shown
depending on settings controlled by the user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Hide</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: Selected menu: Use to remove a printer object representation
from the view area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hierarchical file system</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Concepts: The Hierarchical File System: A way to
organize
data on computer systems using a hierarchy of containers, often called
directories (or folders) and files. In this scheme, directory containers may
contain other directory containers and files. The successive containment of
directories within directories creates the levels of organization, which comprise
the hierarchy.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>high-color</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Concepts: Workspace Colors: To change the number
of
colors used: 1) A setting for the maximum number of colors used by the
desktop. 2) Capable of displaying many colors (in reference to the capabilities
of a hardware display). See <emphasis>color-rich</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>highlight</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager Help: Tasks: To Select a Single File or Folder: To make
something
stand out on the screen. See <emphasis>emphasis</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>history</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>As in &ldquo;file history.&rdquo; Usually a list of most recently accessed
files, directories, or
commands.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>History dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: History button: Shows a list of the sequence of topics and help
volumes
the user has visited. The history sequence can be traversed in reverse order
so
the user can easily return to earlier topics.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>home</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A user's default folder (directory).</para>
<para>2) A configuration of workspaces that includes Style Manager settings,
open
applications, and the size and position of objects. This configuration is
saved as
a user's home session so that a consistent desktop environment can be re-
created at login.</para>
<para>3) A position at the beginning of a text segment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>home directory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A directory where you keep personal files and additional directories.
By
default, the File Manager and Terminal Emulator windows are set to the home
directory when you first open them. See <emphasis>home folder</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>HomeDirectory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Symbolizes your home directory. For example: If your home directory
is
<filename>/users/anna</filename>, then
<symbol role="variable">HomeDirectory</symbol><filename>/bitmaps/smile.bm</filename> represents
<filename>/users/anna/bitmaps/smile.bm</filename>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>home folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A folder where you keep personal files and additional directories. By
default,
the File Manager and Terminal Emulator windows are set to the home folder
when you first open them. See <emphasis>home directory</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>home session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice at logout to designate a particular session, other than the
one you are
currently in, as the one you will automatically return to at the next login.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>home topic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: The topic at the top of the hierarchy in a help volume. This is
the topic
that is displayed when the user indicates a desire to browse a help volume.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>host</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 30, message3: A computer system.</para>
<para>ToolTalk: The system that contains the file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>host name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Session Manager: Message 36: An identifier for a computer system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hot spot</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The place on the pointer that determines the exact spot on the screen
where
an action is performed.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The actual position on the pointer that identifies
the
element to which input associated with the pointer is directed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Hour Display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Display Settings: label: A 12- or
24-hour
display option. Use to set the Calendar view and Appointment Editor hour
labels. If the 12-hour display option is selected, an appointment at 2 in
the
afternoon is displayed as 2:00pm in Week view (2:00p in Month view).
However, if the 24-hour display option is selected, the same appointment is
displayed as 14:00.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hue</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color: Modify Color dialog box: The quality of a color
that
enables it to be placed on a scale ranging from red to violet (from Webster's).
In the Style Manager Color dialog box, a hue is specified by the relative
proportions of red, green, and blue.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hyperlink</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End User: In help text, information that, when chosen, displays another
help
topic.</para>
<para>2) Help: A segment of text (word or phrase) or graphic image that has
some
behavior associated with it. The most common type of hyperlink is a &ldquo;jump&rdquo;
link, which connects to a related topic. When the user chooses a jump link,
the
related topic is displayed.</para>
<para>Hyperlinks can also be used to invoke other kinds of behavior, such
as
executing a system command or invoking specific application behavior.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hyperlink callback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: An application function that is invoked when a user chooses a
hyperlink.
This function is responsible for handling the types of hyperlinks not handled
automatically within the help dialog.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>hypertext table of contents</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A hypertext hierarchical list of section titles. Hypertext TOCs
organize sections of online book titles within the Information System.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A graphical representation of an object; an icon can be directly manipulated.
It
consists of an image, an image background, and a label. Contrast with <emphasis>graphic</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element representing an object or a window
as a
graphic, often with an associated text label.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>icon association</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The link between an icon and file types, actions, controls, and application
windows that enable that icon to be used to represent an object in the user
interface.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Icon Box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Window dialog box: A Style Manager: Window setting that
enables users
to specify whether minimized window icons are placed in an icon box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>icon browser</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Enable Icon Browsing: A special configuration
state of File Manager that enables pixmap and bitmap files to be displayed
with the contents of the files as their icons instead of the default pixmap
and
bitmap icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>icon control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A control that is a graphical representation of an application. Double-clicking
an icon control starts the application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Icon Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application used to create new icons and to modify existing
icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>icon set</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A family of related icon files used in the desktop. A complete icon
set consists
of large icons that are used in the Front Panel, medium icons that are used
as
&ldquo;large&rdquo; icons in File Manager views, and small icons that are
used as small
icons in File Manager views.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Iconic Path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options dialog box: Headers: Use to show
the
current directory below the menu bar using icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>iconic path header</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager Reference: File Manager Window: An optionally displayed
area
of the File Manager window that presents the current path as a series of folder
icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>iconify</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Use <emphasis>minimize</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Ignore Case</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: Printers: Find: A setting in a search dialog box that
specifies
that alphabetic characters differing only in capitalization are treated as
matches
when the search string and potential targets are compared. Compare with <emphasis>Exact
Match</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>illegal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Use <emphasis>invalid</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>image</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit: Grab Screen Image: An object being edited by Icon
Editor,
such as an icon, a backdrop pattern, or a portion of the screen.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>image capture</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Message 60: See <emphasis>Grab Screen Image</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>implicit focus</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Keyboard events are automatically sent to the window and control
where
the pointer is located.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A focus policy, based on pointer movement,
in
which keyboard events are automatically sent to the window and control
where the pointer is located. Also referred to as &ldquo;pointer-driven&rdquo;
focus.
Contrast with <emphasis>explicit focus</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>in-progress message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A message that informs you about the status of a process, such as copying
a set
of files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>in-use emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue that indicates that an object is
in use, for
example, if a view of the object is being displayed in a window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>inactive</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Not receiving input focus.</para>
<para>Do not use inactive to refer to menu items or choices. Use <emphasis>unavailable</emphasis> or <emphasis>dimmed</emphasis>
instead.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>inactive window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A window that is not receiving keyboard input.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Inbox</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: An electronic mail (email) box and filing system that contains
all mail
messages. The Inbox receives all incoming email. Messages can be moved out
of the Inbox and put in files called.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Include</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: field: Use to
set the
privacy level of appointments to appear on your printed calendar.</para>
<para>2) File menu item: Use to insert a file into the current document.</para>
<para>3) Mailer: Compose menu: New, Include All; Reply to Sender, Include;
Reply to
All, Include: Use when creating a new email message or replying to an existing
email message to append another email message.</para>
<para>4) Mailer: Compose window: File menu: Include: Include a text file into
your
new message at the insertion point.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Index Search dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A dialog box that shows a list of index entries for a help volume.
An
index can be displayed for the current volume, selected volumes, or all help
volumes. A user can search the index for a word or phrase and any
corresponding topics that contain the search string are listed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>

<glossentry><glossterm>indicator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A type of Front Panel control that changes state whenever a specified
file is
modified. For example, the Mailer control changes state whenever new mail
arrives.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>individual selection technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection technique that identifies the individual
element whose selection state is to be affected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>infolib</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The set of files, including SGML instances, graphics, and indexes,
that comprise an information library. See <emphasis>information library</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Info Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Information Manager</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Information</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: A default application group that contains online
system
information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>information area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Application Builder: See <emphasis>object information area</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A specific part of a window in which information
about the current application task context is displayed. The information area
can also contain other task-related messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>information library</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A set of bookcases, where each bookcase contains a set of books, and
where each book contains sections.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Information Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that permits you to browse and search collections
of online documentation, called information libraries.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>information message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A message that indicates to a user that a condition
or
an event has occurred, such as: &ldquo;Document has been deleted.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Information System</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The information libraries (the data), the Information Manager (the viewer)
and the Information System Developer's Toolkit (the development tools).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Information System Developer's Toolkit</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The set of tools and APIs that allow Information System authors
to write, process, and view information libraries.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Initial Calendar View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Display Settings: label: Use to set
the user's
calendar to be displayed at startup. It is usually your own, but it could
be
someone else's.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>initial session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The ToolTalk session in which the application was started.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>initialize</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To set a variable or application to some initial state.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>inline graphic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A small graphic (illustration) that appears within a line of text.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>input focus</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The state of a control that is to receive input from a particular
input device.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: See <emphasis>focus</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>input method</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A layer of mapping between the keyboard keys (or combination
of keys) that the user types and the text data that is passed to the
application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>insensitive</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An unavailable control or choice that cannot
receive
input or be navigated to.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Insert</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to insert data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>insertion point</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The point at which data typed on the keyboard, or pasted from the
clipboard
or a file, appears on the screen. In text, a synonym for <emphasis>cursor</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The position within an editable selection
scope at
which inserted or pasted data is placed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Install Icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Subpanel drop zone: Use to install icons into the Front Panel using <emphasis>drag and
drop</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>interacted emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Emphasis used to identify the last control containing
an editable selection scope on the user's display with which the user interacted.
In explicit mode, it is the last such control that had focus; in implicit
mode, it is
the last such control to which a key or mouse button press or release was
directed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>interface</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The graphical user interface (GUI) created by dragging
and dropping objects from the primary window; also called &ldquo;user interface.&rdquo;
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>interface designer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A person who designs the interface of an application.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>internal navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Use of the keyboard to move the active cursor
from
one element or point to another within a control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Internationalization</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager:Int'l dialog box: allows users to customize their interaction
with an input method, depending upon the current selected locale. (This dialog
box
will only appear in internationalized versions of CDE.)</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>invalid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: message set 5: message 50: Not usable by the application.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>inverse video</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Use <emphasis>highlight</emphasis> for the visual meaning; <emphasis>select</emphasis> for the activity.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>invoke</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Preferred term is <emphasis>run</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>IS_ACTION</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An attribute added to the <filename>DATA_ATTRIBUTES</filename> entry
that is created when an
action is loaded. The <command>DtDtsDataTypeIsAction</command> uses this attribute
to
determine if a data type was created from the action table. It has no
representation in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files except as an action
entry. Note that this value
should not be set in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files and is only used
internally.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>IS_SYNTHETIC</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An attribute added to the <filename>DATA_CRITERIA/DATA_ATTRIBUTES</filename>
entries that is
created when an action is loaded. It has no representation in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files
except as an action entry. Note: This value should not be set in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files
and is only used internally.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ITE</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Internal Terminal Emulator. ITE allows use of a bitmapped display as
a
terminal (through command-line mode from the Login screen).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>items</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Elements in a list or menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>job</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: A potentially queued task to be performed by a system.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Job Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: Printers: Find: An alphanumeric identifier for a print
job that is
used by the print system to track a job from the time it is submitted, through
the queue, and while printing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Jobs to Show</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View: Set Options: Use to specify whether the print jobs
of all
users in a shared queue or only the jobs of the current user are displayed.
(This
control group may not be implemented.)</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>jump-new-view hyperlink</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A hyperlink that, when chosen, displays its information in a new
dialog
box. Jump-new-view links are intended for cross-volume links. The user senses
a &ldquo;new context&rdquo; by a new window being displayed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>jump scroll</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: The type of scrolling
that results
when Smooth Scrolling is disabled, in which multiple lines are scrolled
simultaneously as data is sent to the terminal window. Contrast with Smooth
Scrolling.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Justify</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings dialog box: Use to space selected text
so it comes
out even on both margins.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Keyboard</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Keyboard dialog box: Use to set properties of the keyboard
such as key click and auto-repeat.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Keyboard Control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to control keyboard
mappings.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>keyboard focus</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A state in which a window or element within
a
window receives keyboard input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>keyboard selection modes</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: Models or techniques for navigation and
selection
that are employed when the keyboard is the input device. The two keyboard
selection modes are <emphasis>add mode</emphasis> and <emphasis>normal mode</emphasis>. Each of the various selection
techniques may support only one or both of these modes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Keypad Mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to switch between
numeric mode and application mode for numeric keypad escape sequences.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>label</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The text appearing next to an icon or control that names the element.
</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: (1) Text or graphic that identifies a control
or provides
additional information about the control. (2) The name that identifies an
object.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Language</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login screen: Options menu: Login setting that you can use to select
the locale
and language for a desktop session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>launch</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Preferred term is <emphasis>run</emphasis> or <emphasis>start</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>layered pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: Two or more panes arranged one on top of another.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>layout</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The physical positioning&mdash;absolute and relative&mdash;of
objects in the user interface. See <emphasis>Layout</emphasis> and <emphasis>group</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Layout</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the menus in the menu bar of the primary
window; includes align, distribute, group and paned window functions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Left Align</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings dialog box: field: Use to position selected
text to
line up with the left margin.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Left Margin</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings dialog box: Use to set the left margin.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>legend</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use to refer to window elements; use <emphasis>label</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>libtt</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The application program interface (API) library.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Line tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use this tool to draw a straight line.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A hypertext reference to a locator. The content of a link represents
an active area within the Information Manager. See <emphasis>locator</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Link To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Copy As Link</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>list</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A control that contains elements from which you select. Also called
&ldquo;selection
list.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>list box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Any of a number of graphical devices that displays a list of items
from
which you can select one or more items. It is usually not necessary to name
the
specific kind of box being used.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that contains a list of items that
a user can
select.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>list button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to display a series of options.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>list cascade button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A button that represents a cascading choice used
to
display a cascaded list. Synonymous with <emphasis>list button</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>list item</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element in a list that can be selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>List Marks</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Marks menu: Use to list all
of your blank and annotated bookmarks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>load</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To transfer a file from a storage device into the memory of the computer.
</para>
<para>2) To mount a tape or disk pack so that it is ready to operate.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>local host</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The CPU or computer on which a software application is running; your
workstation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>locale</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A language-specific or country-specific
environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>location cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A cursor that shows which part of a window receives keyboard input.
Usually
takes the form of an outline that is displayed around the keyboard input area.
Contrast with <emphasis>text cursor</emphasis> and <emphasis>pointer</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>locator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An anchor point in a document to which hypertext links can refer. Each
locator
has an associated identifier that is unique throughout the information library.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Lock Background</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A choice that specifies a manually
activated
screen saver. Used in systems lacking the screen lock extensions that enable
the
automatic starting of screen savers. This term is <emphasis>Screen Savers</emphasis> in systems that
have screen lock extensions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Lock button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel control: Use to lock the screen.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>log in</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To supply a user name and password to gain access to a system or desktop
session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>login</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The process of gaining access to a system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>login prompt</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login: Message set1: Message 19: An indication to the user to begin
the login
process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>log out</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To terminate or end access to a system or desktop session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>logout</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The termination of a desktop session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Logout button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel control: Use to initiate the logout process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>logout process</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Logout Confirmation dialog box: The process of exiting the desktop.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Long (contents type)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit menu: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: A setting that identifies a contents pattern in
a data
type definition as a long decimal value.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Lower</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to move a window or an icon to the bottom of the stacking
order.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Magnification</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Options menu: Use to change the size of the view of the
image in
the drawing area. Compare with <emphasis>Scale</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mail</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Appointment Editor: Reminders: optional setting: Use to
specify
that an electronic mail reminder of a Calendar appointment be automatically
sent.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars: Schedule: button: Use to send
an
electronic mail reminder of a Calendar appointment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mail To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor and To Do Editor: Reminders: optional setting:
Use to specify the recipient of an electronic mail message to remind a user
of a
Calendar appointment or To Do item.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mailbox</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A file that contains mail messages. Once a message is put in a mailbox,
you can
display, modify, delete, print, include, forward, and reply to it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mailer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An application that enables you to send, receive, and compose electronic
mail
messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mailer control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Use to start the Mailer software application. Dropping
a file on the
control loads the file into the Mailer Compose window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>main window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The primary window of an application.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: One of three types of window objects&mdash;main
window,
custom dialog, and file selection box. A main window is the basic building
block for a user interface.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Make</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Make action for no arguments
prompts for a Makefile and target, and then uses the UNIX <command>make</command>
command to
make it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>man page link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A hyperlink that, if activated, displays a &ldquo;man page,&rdquo;
which is a brief
online explanation of a system command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Man Page Viewer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The Man Page Viewer (Dtmanpageview) action displays a man page in a
quick
help window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>MANIPULATION button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The button on a pointing device that you press to manipulate an object
directly.
The MANIPULATION button has two modes, Adjust and Transfer. The
MANIPULATION button functions are assigned to mouse button 2. For
example, mouse button 2 is the default manipulation button on a two-button
mouse.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Manual</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu: Set Refresh choice: Use to set the refresh properties off.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Manual Close</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button choice: A type of terminal window associated
with an action that remains open until the user explicitly closes the window.
Contrast with <emphasis>Auto Close</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>manual help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A style of online help that requires the user to know what help
is needed
and how to get it. For example, most commands in a Help menu are
considered &ldquo;manual&rdquo; help because the user chooses when and what
to view.
See also <emphasis>automatic help</emphasis> and <emphasis>semi-automatic
help</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>manual stacking order</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A model in which windows or elements do not change
their stacking order simply as a result of gaining focus. Contrast with <emphasis>automatic
stacking order</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>map feature</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Help: Reference: Limitations of Create Action: A feature
of an
action definition that enables a single action name to be mapped to different
actions depending upon the data type of an object dropped on an action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mapping</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A method of using one action to run another action.</para>
<para>2) A pairing of entities in one set with those in another set.</para>
<para>3) Style Manager: Help: Style Manager Mouse Dialog Box: The assignment
of
direct manipulation behaviors (for example, select, invoke pop-up menus, or
drag) to the buttons on a pointing device.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Margin Distance</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to determine how far
from
the margin text should be before the bell should ring.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>margin technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A group selection technique in which a user
interaction in the margin of a selection region selects a group of related
elements in the selection scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Margin Warning</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to enable or disable
the
margin warning bell.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mark</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: An integer that represents a location on the ToolTalk API
stack.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Marks</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Reading window: Marks menu: Use to create, edit, and delete
bookmarks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>marquee</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>framing rectangle</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mask</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Tasks: Manipulating Images within Icon Editor: To
Add a
Hot Spot: A pattern of bits used to alter another pattern of bits by performing
logical operations (such as AND or OR) on the source pattern and the mask.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Maximize</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that enlarges a window to its largest possible size.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>maximize button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A button on the title bar that represents the
maximize
choice. The user activates this button to enlarge the window to its largest
size.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Maximize Decoration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Window and Session Control: The graphic for the
window
frame control that expands a window to its maximum size.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>melt</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: An animation effect in which a
dropped
object appears to fade into its drop site. Used to signal that a drop action
succeeded.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A list of items from which you select to perform a particular application
task.
Also see <emphasis>submenu</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control generally containing a list of choices
of any
type.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu accelerator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>End User: Do not use. Preferred term is <emphasis>shortcut key</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Menu Bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options menu: Use to enable or disable the menu bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The part of the application window between the title bar and the
work area
where menu names are listed.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: One of the primary window control objects; positions
itself at the top of a main window when dragged and dropped on it. Includes
File, Edit, and Help menu headers.</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu displayed below the title bar that
contains
only cascading choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu-bar item</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A cascading choice that appears on a menu bar.
Menu-bar items provide access to menus, which contain additional choices.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>MENU button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A mouse button that is used to activate pop-up menus. The MENU button
functions are assigned to mouse button 3.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The button on a pointing device that the user
presses to view a pop-up menu. For example, mouse button 3 is the default
MENU button on a three-button mouse. See also <emphasis>TRANSFER button</emphasis>
and
<emphasis>SELECT button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu cascade button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A button representing a cascading choice used
to
display a pull-down menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Menu Decoration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Window and Session Control: The graphic for the
window
frame control that provides access to the window menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Menu Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse menu: Use to edit the list of calendars that are available
for
browsing or comparing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu item</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An element in a menu that represents a choice.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A rectangular
box that
contains menu choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>menu topic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A menu-bar choice.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) ToolTalk: A structure that the ToolTalk service delivers to processes.
A
ToolTalk message consists of an operation name, a vector of type arguments,
a
status value or string pair, and ancillary addressing information.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: Information not requested by the user but
displayed
in a secondary window by an application in response to an unexpected event
or exception. There are three types of messages: information, in-progress,
and
action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message callback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A client function. The ToolTalk service invokes this function
to report
information about the specified message back to the sending application; for
example, the message failed or the message caused a tool to start.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Message Header List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Mailbox menu: Mail Options: Category: The Options property sheet
that controls how often the Inbox is updated, how new mail is signaled, the
number of message headers displayed, whether to show the recipient when the
message is from the mailbox owner, whether to display message numbers, and
when to destroy deleted messages. Also, the upper pane of the Mailer primary
window that displays the list of email headers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message line</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File Manager: View: Set View Options: A status area of the File Manager
window that displays the number of objects in the current view and error
messages.</para>
<para>2) Print Manager: View: Set Options: Use to specify whether a message
area is
displayed as a footer in the Print Manager application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message pattern</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Defines the information your ToolTalk application will accept.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message protocol</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A set of ToolTalk messages that describe operations the applications
agree to perform.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>message view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: The bottom portion of the mailbox that displays the text of
a selected
email message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>metaphor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Visual Design: A user interface representation
of a object that
suggests a likeness or analogy with some other object or idea. User interface
metaphors may be words, phrases, environments, graphics, or icons that
suggest some real-world object or domain.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>midpoint technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An adjustment policy in which the current selection
region is adjusted relative to the endpoint furthest from the point at which
an
adjustment is initiated.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>MIME</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Multipurpose Internet mail extensions. The electronic mail specification
defined in RFC1521, that allows multi-part messages, such as attachments.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>minimize</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To turn a window into an icon. The push button that minimizes a window
is
located near the upper right corner of the window frame.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Minimize/Restore Front Panel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Workspace menu: Use to toggle the Front Panel between minimized and
normal state.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>minimize button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A button on the title bar that represents the
Minimize
choice. The user activates this button to remove the window and all secondary
windows dependent on the window being minimized, and to display the
corresponding window icon.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Minimize Decoration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Window and Session Control: The graphic for the
window
frame control that reduces a window to a minimized window icon.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>minimized window box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: See <emphasis>window icon box</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>MMDB</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A database of document objects. Each bookcase has its own MMDB and a search index.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mnemonic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A character that the user can type (possibly
augmented with Alt) to move the focus elsewhere in a window or menu
and/or to activate or toggle a choice whose label contains and emphasizes
that
character.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>modal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A state in which you must complete the request of the mode before continuing.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A method of operation in which the actions that
are
available to a user are determined by the state of the system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>model keyboard</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: An idealized keyboard that contains the
keys and
key labels described in the CDE and Motif Style Guides and Checklist. A
model keyboard is used in descriptions because not all keyboards contain the
same keys.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>modeless</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A state that does not interfere with the user performing any other action.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>modified DTD</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A DTD for a document source with architectural forms applied to it that
allow
the document source to be compiled into a browsable information library.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>modifier key</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A key that when pressed and held along with another key or mouse
button
changes the meaning of the second key or mouse click. Control, Alt, and Shift
are examples.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A key used with other keys or with mouse buttons
(or other buttons on input devices) to modify the behavior associated with
that
key or button. The standard modifier keys are Shift, Alternate (Alt), and
Control (Ctrl).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Modify</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color dialog box: Use to alter the color of a selection
or
element. Also a Style Manager: Color dialog box push button used to access
a
dialog box with color choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Modify the Show List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View: Use to define which printers are shown in the Print
Manager view area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>module</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The logical user interface unit. One or more modules
make up a project. Each window or dialog box in an application might be a
separate module. See <emphasis>project</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>module browser</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: See <emphasis>browser</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>module file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The file created for each module in a project when
a
project is saved. A module file has a <filename>.bil</filename> extension.
See <emphasis>BIL file</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>monochrome display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Icon Design Recommendations: A display
capable
of displaying light and dark with very limited levels of highlighting.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Month</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Use to change the Calendar view to display the
selected
month.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Month view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Use to display a calendar month. Each day in Month view contains
a
month button that, when clicked, displays Day view for that day. The display
can also be changed with the Previous view (left) or Next View (right)
navigation arrows or by choosing Day, Week, or Year view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mount</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To extend the directory hierarchy by attaching a file system from
somewhere
else in the hierarchy on a mount point directory.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Set 30, message 4: To cause the root directory of a
disk or
partition to take the place of a directory on the root disk or partition.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mouse</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>End User: A device for moving the pointer and making selections.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A commonly used pointing device that has one
or
more buttons that a user presses to interact with the operating environment.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mouse</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: Use to display options for operating
the
mouse.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Mouse and Keyboard</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Use to display information on operating the mouse and keyboard.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mouse button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A mechanism on a mouse that you press to make selections.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mouse button 1</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>On a mouse or similar pointing device, the left button when configured
for
right-handed use; the right button when configured for left-handed use. Mouse
button 1 is bound to the SELECT button functions. In CDE, it also performs
the
functions of the MANIPULATION button in Transfer mode. See <emphasis>SELECT
button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mouse button 2</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) On a three-button mouse or similar pointing device, the middle button.
On a
two-button mouse, the right button if configured for right-handed use or the
left button if configured for left-handed use. Mouse button 2 is bound to
the
MANIPULATION button functions. In CDE, the MANIPULATION button has
two modes, Transfer and Adjust. See <emphasis>MANIPULATION button</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>2) Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: Mouse, setting options for the
MANIPULATION button. On a three-button mouse, the middle button. On a
two-button mouse, the right button when configured for right-handed use or
the left button when configured for left-handed use.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>mouse button 3</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>On a mouse or similar pointing device, the right button when configured
for
right-handed use; the left button when configured for left-handed use. Mouse
button 3 is bound to the MENU button functions. See <emphasis>MENU button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Move</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A window menu choice used to put a window in a different location
on the
screen.</para>
<para>2) Mailer: Mailbox: Move: File In: Use to take an email message from
its
location in one mailbox and put it into another mailbox. Move does not leave
a
copy of the message in the first mailbox; Copy To leaves a copy in the first
mailbox.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Move To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File menu: A File Manager menu choice. This usage of move
has
two meanings: 1) Move a file or folder to another folder, and 2) Rename a
file
or folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multi-click</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To press and release a button on a pointing device
two
or more times without significantly moving the pointer and within a time
specified by the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multi-level technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A group selection technique used within selection
scopes whose elements can be organized hierarchically.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multi-page control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A kind of control used to show one or more pages
at a
time from among a larger set of pages; each page containing one or more
controls.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multipart document</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A document that contains one or more attachments.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multi-press</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: To perform one or more clicks with a pointing
device
followed by a press without significantly moving the pointer and within a
time
specified by the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multiple selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Multiple items can be selected using the selection techniques without
augmentation. This selection mode is typical when you need to select multiple
items within a given scope of selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>multiple selection technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection model in which any number of elements
can be selected at a time and in which all selection techniques toggle the
identified elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Name Pattern</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: A pattern of alphanumeric and wildcard characters
that are used to search for file names when adding data types to a Create
Action action definition.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Navigate</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help Viewer: button: Use to move through choices in the Help Viewer.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The act of moving the active cursor in response
to
input.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>navigation keys</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The keyboard keys used to move the current location of the cursor. These
include the arrow keys (with or without the Control key); the Tab key (with
or
without the Control or Shift keys); the Begin and End keys (with or without
the
Control key); and the Page Up and Page Down keys.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>networked session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A session managed across multiple systems. Using a networked session
enables the same session to be seen regardless of which system was used to
log
in. It also provides a single home directory across multiple systems.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>New</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File menu: Use to either open a new window or load a new file into
the
current window.</para>
<para>2) Terminal: Window menu: New: Use to open a new terminal window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>New File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File menu: Use to create a new file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>New Folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File menu: Use to create a new folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>newline character</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An unseen character that marks the end of a line of text in a document.
It tells
a printer or screen to break a line and start a new one.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Newline Sequence</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to either send a
carriage
return or a carriage return plus a line feed when the newline sequence is
received.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Next</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Search menu: Use to move the cursor to the next instance
of a
search string.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Next view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: tool bar: right arrow navigation button: Use to change the
calendar
display to the day, week, month, or year after the one you are viewing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>no</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An action that indicates a negative response.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>No Output</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button choice: A choice that does not create a
window on
the display when an action is invoked.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>No Time</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: A Calendar appointment option that schedules
an event on your calendar with no time assigned to it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>normal mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A keyboard-based selection mode in which selection
techniques select the element or elements identified by the technique and
deselect all other elements in the selection scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>not possible cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Use <emphasis>cannot pointer</emphasis> instead. See <emphasis>cannot pointer</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>note</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A message to the user that draws attention to important information.
If the
information is critically important, a caution or warning is used instead.
See
also <emphasis>caution</emphasis> and <emphasis>warning</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>notice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: DtMessage 2: Title of informational message dialog boxes.
</para>
<para>ToolTalk: A way for an application to announce an event. Zero or more
tools
may receive a given notice. The sender is not informed whether any tools
receive its notice, as replies cannot be sent for a notice.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>null string</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Help: To Create an Action with Create Action: A string
consisting of zero characters.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Number of Colors</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Color dialog box: A dialog box that enables the user
to set the
number of colors used by the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Any related group of objects. When referring to File Manager objects,
use
&ldquo;file,&rdquo; &ldquo;folder,&rdquo; or &ldquo;icon&rdquo; wherever possible.
Use the term &ldquo;object&rdquo; only when
the more specific term may be misleading.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: Any of the defined elements&mdash;windows, panes,
or
controls&mdash;used in building a user interface. Application Builder objects
are
represented by icons on the object palettes of the primary window; they
become interface objects once they are dragged and dropped. An Application
Builder object is composed of one or more widgets. See <emphasis>widget</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element that visually represents something
that
has behavior and contents not revealed solely by the visual representation.
Objects are often represented as icons, but could be represented in other
ways
as well; for example, as list items.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object content</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Object content is managed by the ToolTalk application that
creates or
manages the object and is typically a piece, or pieces, of an ordinary file:
a
paragraph, a source code function, or a range of spreadsheet cells.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object files</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Files that contain ToolTalk object information. Applications
can query
for objects in a file and perform operations on batches of objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object information area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The area at the bottom of the main palette where
information about interface objects is displayed; included are object type,
object name, coordinate position, pixel size, the position of the mouse pointer,
and the name of the current module.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The internal name or &ldquo;handle&rdquo; for an
object used to build
a user interface; unique within a module.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object-oriented messages</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Messages addressed to objects managed by ToolTalk applications.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object palette</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: See <emphasis>palette</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object specification (spec)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: An object specification (known as a spec) contains standard
properties such as the type of object, the name of the file in which the object
contents are located, and the object owner.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of more than 20 kinds of objects on the object
palettes
of the primary window, including main window, control pane, draw area pane,
button, menu bar, label, and text field. Each object type has a unique set
of
properties.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object type (otype)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The object type (otype) for your application provides addressing
information that the ToolTalk service uses when delivering object-oriented
messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>object type identifier (otid)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Identifies the object type.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>observe a message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: To view a ToolTalk message without performing any operation
that
may be requested.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>observe promise</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Guarantees that the ToolTalk service delivers a copy of each
matching
message to process types (ptypes) with an observer signature of start or queue
disposition. The ToolTalk service delivers the message either to a running
instance of the ptype, by starting an instance, or by queueing the message
for
the ptype.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Occupy All Workspaces</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Window menu: Use to place the window in all workspaces.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Occupy Workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Window menu: Brings up a dialog box for selecting one or more workspaces
in
which to place a window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>OK</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that accepts the information in a window and closes it. If
the window
contains changed information, those changes are applied before the window
is
closed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>On Item</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Use to change the cursor to a question mark. When this mode
is
invoked, the user may obtain information on a screen object by clicking on
it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>On Item help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A form of help in which an application or workspace dialog box provides
on-
screen information about a particular command, operation, dialog box, or
control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>on the desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Prohibited term. Use &ldquo;in the workspace&rdquo; instead.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Only Mine</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View: Set Options: Jobs to Show: Use to specify that
only the
jobs belonging to the current user are shown in print queue displays. (This
control may not be implemented.)</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>opaque pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A value that has meaning only when passed through a particular
interface.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A menu command used to view or edit an object.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Selected menu: A generic action that maps to the default
action for an object. Usually, Open creates a window for viewing or editing
the
object.</para>
<para>3) Print Manager: Selected menu: Use to open a printer object to reveal
print
jobs in the queue.</para>
<para>4) Icon Editor: Help: Tasks: To Open an Existing Icon: Use to bring
the data
from a file into Icon Editor for editing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A common variation of the standard file selection dialog box. The Open
dialog
box is a File Selection dialog box used when loading a file into an application.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open Folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: File: Save As dialog box, Open dialog box: push-button
label: Use
to update the contents of the files list box to show the contents of the selected
directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open Inbox</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Mailbox menu: Use to load your Inbox when you've been reading
mail
in another mailbox.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open New View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: When a folder has been selected, this option
creates
a new File Manager window and opens the folder into it. The original File
Manager window containing the selected folder remains open.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Open Terminal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File menu: Use to open a terminal emulator window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>operation indicator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The part of the pointer displayed during drag
and
drop that indicates whether a drop will result in a move, copy, or link.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>opName</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The name of the operation or event is called the op name (or
op). A tool's opName must be unique unless the message is a standard ToolTalk
message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>option menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A menu displayed from an option menu button.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu containing only value and cascading
choices that is displayed from an option menu button or from a cascading
choice within an option menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>option menu cascade button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A button used to display an option menu.
Synonymous with &ldquo;option menu button.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Optional</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: label on pane created by Show Advanced Functions: A label
for
the advanced function controls.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>OptionButton</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>option menu cascade button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu-bar item: Use to list the available choices that enable you
to customize
an application.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: File menu: Displays property sheets, which you can use
to set the
editor, display, access list and permissions, printer, and date format properties
for your calendar.</para>
<para>3) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: field: Use to
specify print
options (like <command>-o nobanner</command> to suppress the header page).
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Other</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected: Change Permissions: Use to set file access permissions
for Other.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Others See Nothing</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: Privacy: Use to show no information about
appointments to others who are browsing your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Others See Time and Text</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: Privacy: Use to show the time and text
of
appointments to others who are browsing your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Others See Time Only</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor: Privacy: Use to show only the time of
appointments to others who are browsing your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>outline view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A view of a container in which the contents are
displayed in a column, with hierarchical relations between elements identified
by indenting.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Output Format</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Options menu: Use to select the data format of a file.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Overview</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Displays the Help Viewer containing the home topic to introduce
the application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>overwrite</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To replace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Owner</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File Manager: Selected: Change Permissions: Use to set access permissions
for the owner of the file or directory.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: Help: File Manager Tasks: To Change the Owner of a
File or
Folder: The user who owns and controls a file or folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Owner Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected: Change Permissions: Use to set the name of the
owner
of a file or directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>package</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A group of components that together create some software.
A
package contains the executables that compose the software, but also includes
information files and scripts. Software is installed in the form of packages.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>page</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To advance text displayed in a window by one full screen at a time,
usually
using a scroll bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>palette</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A range of graphically displayed choices, such as colors or collections
of
tools, that you can select in an application.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: A grouping of objects of a particular type,
used in
building a user interface; see <emphasis>Controls palette</emphasis>, <emphasis>Panes palette</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Windows palette</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>palette area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area within a window that provides a place
to
store commonly used groups of controls or objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Application Builder: One of the pane objects&mdash;control pane,
text pane, draw
area pane, and term pane&mdash;on the Panes palette of the primary window.
</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: One of the separate areas in a split window
or a
paned box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>paned box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that can be divided into panes using <emphasis>split
bars</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>paned window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: Two or more panes combined into a single entity,
separated by a movable sash for making one pane bigger as the other is made
smaller.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Panes palette</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The primary window palette that contains pane
objects&mdash;control pane, text pane, draw area pane, and term pane. See <emphasis>palette</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>panner box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A two-dimensional interactive panner within an Information Manager Graphical Map
that allows you to shift the part of the map that is visible within
the reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Paragraph</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format menu: Use to format the text in the current paragraph.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>parameter</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Recommended term is <emphasis>argument</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>parent directory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A directory that contains subdirectories and files. See <emphasis>parent
folder</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>parent folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A folder that contains subfolders and files. See <emphasis>parent directory</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>parse</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To break into smaller chunks so that a program can act on the information.
</para>
<para>Create Actions: message set 5: message 90: To read and interpret.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>partially expand</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Use the Folder Tree View: In a directory
tree
view, use to open a folder (shown as a &ldquo;leaf&rdquo; in a tree) to show
only the folders
it contains. See <emphasis>expand</emphasis> and <emphasis>contract</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>password</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login: Help: A sequence of characters that users type to prove their
identity to
the system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Paste</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A menu command or key mapping that places the contents of the clipboard
at
the current cursor position.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Paste View Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to apply to the current view any options that were set in another
view and
placed onto the clipboard using the Copy View Options menu item.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A text string that specifics the hierarchical location of a folder or
directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Pattern (Contents)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: A pattern used to search within the contents of
a file
to perform data typing in Create Action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pattern callback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A client function. The ToolTalk service invokes this function
when a
message is received that matches the specified pattern.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pause</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To temporarily suspend a process without ending it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Pencil tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to do freehand drawing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pending delete</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A mode of a selection scope in which pasting
or
insertion within a selected region replaces the selected elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>permission</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A setting that determines how users or groups of users may access a
file or
folder.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Permission Pattern</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: A pattern of UNIX access permissions used to
classify files into a data type in Create Action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Permissions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Options dialog box: Settings: Use to set the file permissions for
Owner,
Group, and Other.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Access List and Permissions: label:
The
permissions (Browse, Insert, Delete) you can grant or have granted to other
users for access to your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>persistent</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A mode of a spring-loaded control in which the
control is displayed and in which the keyboard can be used to navigate
through it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>persistent selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection whose state is unaffected by making
a
selection in another selection scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>personal icons</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Icon File-Name Conventions: Storing Icon
Files:
Icons created by the user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>personal variable</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Reference: The Icon Search Paths: An environment
variable
used to define characteristics of a user's system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pinned window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A reading window that is marked so that the text displayed in the window
is retained when a link is followed, and a new window is opened for the new
text.
If a window is not pinned, the Information Manager updates the text
in the current reading window each time a link is followed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pixel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A picture element that is one spot in a rectilinear grid of thousands
of such
spots that are individually &ldquo;painted&rdquo; to form an image produced
on the screen
by a computer or on paper by a printer.</para>
<para>2) Icon Editor: Help: Tasks: To Draw an Image: A picture element. Graphical
images such as icons may be constructed from a collection of pixels.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pixmap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An image stored in a raster format. Usually refers to an image that
may have
more than two colors. Contrast with <emphasis>bitmap</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Placement</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: group title: Use to determine
whether a
file or directory icon stays where you drop it or is aligned with a grid.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>plug-and-play capability</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Allows any tool to be replaced by any other tool that follows
the
same ToolTalk protocol. That is, any tool that follows a given ToolTalk protocol
can be placed (plugged) into your computing environment and perform (play)
those functions indicated by the protocol. Tools can be mixed and matched
without modification and without having any specific built-in knowledge of
each other.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>point</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To move the mouse until the pointer rests on a particular screen element
or
area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>point technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An individual selection technique in which a
single
element or point is identified.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A cursor that shows the area that receives input from a pointing
device. The
pointer can take the form of an arrow, an I-beam, a cross, or other graphic.
Contrast with <emphasis>text cursor</emphasis> and <emphasis>location cursor</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue, usually in the shape of an
arrow, that
a user can move with a pointing device. Users place the pointer over elements
they want to work with.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pointer acceleration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Acceleration</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Pointer movement threshold</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Threshold</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pointing device</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A device (such as a mouse, trackball, or joystick)
used
to move a pointer on the screen.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Polygon tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to draw a closed figure, the sides of
which consist
of three or more straight lines.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Polyline tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to draw an open polygon, a series of
straight lines
connected at vertices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Pop-up</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Reminders: optional setting: Use to tell the system to display
a
dialog box when it is time to remind a user of a calendar appointment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pop-up control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control temporarily displayed as a result of
a
context-sensitive user interaction (other than from a cascading choice) that
appears at or near the location where it was requested.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pop-up menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A menu that, when requested, is displayed next to the object it is
associated
with.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: The menu that displays when mouse button 3 is
held
down with the mouse pointer in a user interface window or in the browser.
It
includes editing choices plus layout and group functions.</para>
<para>3) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu that is a spring-loaded, pop-up control
and
that contains context-sensitive choices.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Position</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: field: Use to
specify the
margins from the edge of the paper, in inches.</para>
<para>2) Print Manager: Printers: Find: The location of a print job in a queue,
defined
relative to the job that is currently printing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>posted</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: The state of a menu, list box, or combination
box
where it remains visible when a mouse button is not being held down.
Compare with <emphasis>spring-loaded</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>press</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The action of typing a key sequence on the keyboard, as in: Press
Alt+F4.
(Only control-type keys are pressed; alphanumeric keys are &ldquo;typed.&rdquo;
For
mouse buttons, use &ldquo;click&rdquo; instead.)</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: To press a key or mouse button or other button
on
an input device.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Preview</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Font dialog box; Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A
view area
that shows a preview of a selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Previous view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: tool bar: left arrow navigation button: Use to change the
calendar
display to the day, week, month, or year before the one you are viewing.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary colors</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Reference: Icon Editor Windows and Dialog Boxes:
Icon
Editor Color Palettes: Red, blue and yellow. Hues that cannot be created by
mixing other hues.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Primary Copy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A choice that copies the primary selection
to the
insertion point.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary key mapping</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: The standard assignment of keys and key
sequences to functions in Motif/CDE.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Primary Link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A choice that links the primary selection
at the
insertion point.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Primary Move</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A choice that moves the primary selection
to the
insertion point.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Common Dialogs: The part of an expandable window
that
reveals the window's core functions and is displayed by default. See <emphasis>expandable
window</emphasis> and <emphasis>secondary pane</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A highlighted group for which primary transfer applies. See <emphasis>select</emphasis> and
<emphasis>primary transfer</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection that is automatically deselected
when a
new primary selection is made elsewhere.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary transfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A transfer technique that enables the user
to
transfer a selection directly to its destination without dragging it and without
using a clipboard or similar intermediate mechanism. A primary transfer is
made by making a selection, moving the cursor to the destination, and pasting
or dropping the selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>primary window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A window in which the main interaction between you and an object
or
application takes place. Preferred term is <emphasis>main window</emphasis>.
</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: The main window from which objects are dragged
in
building a user interface. The primary window contains a menu bar,
Build/Test radio buttons, an object information area, and three types of object
palettes: Windows, Panes, and Controls.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to prepare and schedule an item to be printed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Current View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File menu: Use to print the Calendar view displayed on your
screen.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to specify the print destination and various other print options.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Dialog Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An X Print Service component that provides setup dialogs for configuring
printers and jobs. CDE provides a standard Print Dialog manager that the CDE
desktop applications use; CDE vendors can also develop their own print dialog
managers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application used to submit, view, and cancel print jobs.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: A dialog box that allows you to specify printed page characteristics
for mail you are printing, such as margin size, content and location of headers
and
footers, how much of the message header is printed, and how multiple messages
should be separated.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Separately</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer:A print dialog box selection that allows you to print multiple
messages as separate jobs, rather than as one job submission.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Print Setup</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A dialog box that allows you to specify printer settings for the currently
selected printer, such as page orientation (portrait or landscape), one- or
two-sided printing, or which paper tray to use. Calendar, Information Manager, Mailer,
and Text Editor display this dialog box when you double-click on the Setup button in
their print dialog box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>print server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A host computer to which one or more printers are connected, or the
UNIX
process that manages those printers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>printer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An object that represents a physical printer.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings field: Use to
specify the
printer on which to print a calendar or list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Printer control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Use to start the Printer software application. Dropping
a file on
the control displays a dialog box you can use to print the file to the default
printer.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Printer Settings</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Use to specify a printer name and
other
settings for printing Calendar views, appointment lists, and To Do lists.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Printers</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: menu-bar: Use to perform global actions in the Print
Manager
application such as finding printer queues and exiting the application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Privacy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: setting: Use to determine how much of the calendar entry is
displayed to others (<emphasis>Others See Time Only</emphasis>, <emphasis>Others See Time and Text</emphasis>, and <emphasis>Others
See Nothing</emphasis>).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Problem Flag</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View: Set Options: Use to specify whether a flag icon
is
displayed for printer objects that are not currently operational.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>process</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 21, Message 26: A program running on the computer.
</para>
<para>ToolTalk: One execution of an application, tool or program that uses
the
ToolTalk service.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>process-oriented messages</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Messages addressed to ToolTalk processes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>procid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The process identifier. The procid is a principal that can
send and
receive ToolTalk messages. It is an identity, created and passed by the ToolTalk
service, that a process must assume to send and receive messages. A single
process can use multiple procids, and a single procid can be used by a group
of
cooperating processes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>product family</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A set of help volumes that are related to one another because
the
applications they refer to are related. See also <emphasis>help family</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>program</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A sequence of instructions that a computer can
interpret and execute. Contrast with <emphasis>application</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>project</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The major user interface unit; one or more modules
make
up a project. See <emphasis>module</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>project file</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The file created when you save a project; a project
file has
a <filename>.bip</filename> extension. See <emphasis>BIP file</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>prompt text</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Help: Tasks: To Create an Action with Create Action:
Text used
to prompt the user to supply an argument for a command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Properties</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to set characteristics of an item, such as its date
or name, or
display identifying characteristics of an item, such as typefaces.</para>
<para>2) CDE Certification Checklist: A key mapping that opens a dialog box
for
making object-specific settings.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>property</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the appearance or behavior attributes of
a
particular user interface object. Properties include such things as object
type,
object name, color, position, help text, and so on. Each type of object has
a
unique set of properties, which are set in the object's property editor. For
Application Builder, see <emphasis>resource</emphasis> and <emphasis>property
editor</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>property dialog</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A dialog box through which the user can set the
properties of a file or an object.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>property editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: A window where properties of Application Builder
objects are set.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ptid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The process type identifier.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ptype</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The process type.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>pull-down menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A menu of related choices that extends from a cascading choice on
a menu bar or from the window menu graphic. Compare with <emphasis>pop-up menu</emphasis>
and <emphasis>submenu</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A cascaded menu that is displayed from a menu
cascade button or a menu bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>purity</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Tasks: To Modify a Palette: The extent to which
a color is
a mixture containing white. See <emphasis>saturation</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>push button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A control that immediately starts an action by an application, such
as
executing a command, displaying a window, or displaying a menu.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control resembling a button that displays
text,
graphics, or both, representing some action. When the user activates the push
button, the action it represents is carried out immediately.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Put Back</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Trash Can: File menu: Used to remove the selected objects from the Trash
Can
and return them to their previous locations.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Put in Trash</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected menu: Used to put a selected file or folder in
the Trash
Can.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Put in Workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected menu: Used to put an icon representing a selection
of
File Manager objects in the current workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>put on desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Prohibited term. Use &ldquo;put in workspace&rdquo; instead.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Query Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: the dialog box that allows you to define detailed
searches of an information library.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>question message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of action message requesting information
that
does not require the user's immediate attention.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>queue</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: An ordered list of jobs waiting to be performed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>quick help window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A streamlined help window that has a topic display area and one
or
more push buttons. See also <emphasis>general help window</emphasis>, which
offers additional
capabilities.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>quick transfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A data transfer technique used to copy, move,
or link
data to the insertion point of the control that has interacted emphasis.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>radio box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A tab group containing a set of mutually exclusive
radio buttons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>radio button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) An exclusive control whose setting is indicated by the presence or
absence of
a graphical indicator, usually part of a radio group. A radio button has two
states, on and off.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control used to set values that are mutually
exclusive.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>radio group, radio button group</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A box containing a set of radio buttons that may have a distinct label.
At most,
one of the radio buttons may be activated at a time.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Raise Window When Made Active</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Window dialog box: Use to bring the window that has the
input focus to the top of the stacking order.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>range click technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A range technique in which two separate mouse
or
keyboard operations are used to indicate the endpoints of the range.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>range selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A method by which you can select a range of data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>range selection model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection model in which any number of contiguous
elements in a range can be selected and in which select mode and normal
mode are the default modes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>range swipe technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A range technique in which the endpoints of the
range
are indicated by moving the mouse or cursor from one endpoint to the other.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>range technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A group selection technique in which the user
selects
elements within an area by indicating the opposite endpoints of a range (such
as in a list or in text).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Read</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To access data on a storage medium.</para>
<para>2) Permission to look at the data in a file.</para>
<para>3) Permission to list the files and folders (directories) in a folder
(directory).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reading window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The Information Manager window that shows the text tables, and graphics
of a particular section in a book.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>read only</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A permission type in which a user can view the contents of an object
but
cannot modify it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>read-only text</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Displayed text that a user can read but not directly
select or change, such as the calculation of a total. Read-only text is displayed
in a read-only text field. Contrast with <emphasis>label</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>read-only text field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that displays text but does not allow
the
user to change or select it directly. Contrast with <emphasis>text-display
field</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reading</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 3: Accessing the contents of a directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ready emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A visual cue for an element, used when the SELECT mouse button is pressed,
to show that the element is activated, or that its value or selection state
changes
when the SELECT button is released. Synonymous with &ldquo;armed emphasis.&rdquo;
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Rectangle tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to draw a rectangle.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Redo</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A menu command that reverses the effect of the most recently performed <emphasis>Undo</emphasis>
operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reference</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Displays the help viewer containing the reference information
about an application's menus, windows and dialog boxes, error messages,
resources, and glossary.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Refresh</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item. Use to update a window or the entire screen to reflect the
current
state of the underlying data.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Refresh Display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Refresh Display (Xrefresh)
action refreshes the entire screen using the <command>xrefresh</command> command.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>register</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: To declare a help volume to be accessible for browsing or cross-volume
linking.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>registration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The process of integrating a printer into the desktop. The process
of
integrating an application into the desktop.</para>
<para>2) Help: The process of declaring a help volume to be accessible for
browsing
or cross-volume linking.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>registration package</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The desktop configuration files for an application, gathered under an
application root directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Regular Desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login screen: Options: Session: A Login choice that enables the user
to log in to
a desktop session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>regular expression</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Find a File by Contents: Character string
patterns using special characters such as *, ?, [], and the like that specify
a
complex search argument.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>reject a request</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The receiving application is unable to perform the requested
operation and the message should be given to another tool.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>relative path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 2: A path specification that begins with the current
directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>release</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To let go of a mouse button or keyboard key.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reload Actions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Reload Actions action
reloads
the database of action, data-type, and front panel definitions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reload Applications</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Reload Applications action
reloads the database of action, data-type, and front panel definitions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reload Resources</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Reload Resources action
reloads your X resources database with the desktop resources files,
incorporating any changes that may have occurred to them since you logged
in.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reminders</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Use to trigger reminders (such as Beep, Flash, Pop-up, or
Mail) to
alert a user to an appointment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Remove</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to delete a split in a window that has previously been divided into
multiple panes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Remove All</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Use to delete all the splits in a window that has previously been divided
into
multiple panes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Remove Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Access List and Permissions: button:
Use
to remove a calendar name, after selecting it in the Access list, from the
list of
calendars with access to your calendar.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: Browse: Menu Editor: button: Use to remove a calendar name,
after selecting it in the Browse Menu list, from the list of calendars you
frequently browse or compare.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Rename</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Selected menu: Use to change the name of an existing file,
folder
(directory), or workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Repeat</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor and To Do Editor: Frequency: optional setting:
Use to set the interval for a calendar appointment or To Do item to recur,
for
example, weekly, monthly, Mon-Wed-Fri, and so on. See <emphasis>For</emphasis>, <emphasis>Frequency</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reply</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose: Reply [To]: To respond to an email message sent to
you.
There are several types of replies you can choose such as Reply to Sender;
Reply to All; Reply to Sender, Include; Reply to All, Include.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Representation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File Manager: View: Set View Options; group title: Use to specify
how file
and folder objects are displayed in the File Manager view area.</para>
<para>2) Print Manager: View: Set Options: Use to specify how a printer object
is
displayed in the Print Manager view area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>request</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para><interface class="Button">ToolTalk: A call for an action. The results
of the action are recorded in the
message, and the message is returned to the sender as a reply.</interface>
A request asks
that an operation to be performed. It has a distinguished recipient ( <emphasis>handler</emphasis>)
responsible for performing the indicated operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>reselect policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A selection extension model in
which the
extended range is determined by the anchor and the current cursor position
in
exactly the same manner as when the selection was initially made.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reset</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Button or menu item: Use to return an item to the condition it was in
when it
was last opened or to the condition it was in before the most recent changes
were applied to it, whichever is more recent.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reset Login Screen</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login dialog box: Options: Use to re-read the X-resources configuration
file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>resize corner</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>size border</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Resize Decoration</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Window and Session Control: The graphic for the
window
frame control that reduces a maximized window to the size it was before it
was
maximized.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>resize handle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A control used to change the size of a window or a pane in a window.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Resize Icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to change the size (in number of pixels)
of the grid
matrix that defines the drawing area of an image. Compare with <emphasis>Scale</emphasis> and
<emphasis>Magnification</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>resize pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The mouse pointer displayed when an element, such as a window, is being
resized.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>resource</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Application Builder: An appearance or behavior attribute of a widget.
For
Application Builder use, resources are significant only when you use
<command>dtcodegen</command> to generate code.</para>
<para>2) X: A mechanism of the X Window System for specifying an attribute
(appearance or behavior) of a window or application. Resources are usually
named after the elements they control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>restart</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To stop a process and start it again.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Restart Workspace Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Workspace menu: Use to re-initialize the Workspace Manager after making
changes to resources or configuration files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Restore</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to return a window to the size and position it occupied
before
you minimized or maximized it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>restore (session)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Message 13: To re-create a desktop session as it was
in a
previous session or the home session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Restore Front Panel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Restore Front Panel action
restores the Front Panel to its default state.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Restricted File Manager View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 18, message 30: A File Manager view when in <emphasis>restricted mode</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>restricted mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 2: A mode that prohibits you from navigating beyond
a
certain directory (folder).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Resume</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to continue a paused process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Retry</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to attempt to complete an interrupted process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Reverse End-of-line Wrapping</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to wrap the cursor
up to
the previous line if the cursor is located at the left margin when backspace
is
pressed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>revolving property editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: See <emphasis>property editor</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>RFC822</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Standard for sending internet mail messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>RGB</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Visual Design: Red, green, blue. RGB values refer
to the
amount of red, green and blue in a color mixture. The acronym should be
spelled out in most uses.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Right Align</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings dialog box: Use to position selected text
to line up
with the right margin.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Right Margin</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Text Editor: Format: Settings dialog box: Use to set the right margin.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>root directory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Concepts: The Hierarchical File System: In a hierarchical
file system, the directory that contains all other directories and files.
Represented by a slash (<filename>/</filename>) in UNIX systems.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Rotate Area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to rotate a selected area in an image.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Rows and Columns</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options: Use to determine how the icons
in the
File Manager are arranged in the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>rpc.cmsd</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: The Calendar service daemon, a small database manager for
appointment and resource-scheduling data. See <emphasis>callog file</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>rpc.ttdbserverd</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The database server process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>run</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>To start an application or action. Preferred term in place of &ldquo;launch,&rdquo;
&ldquo;invoke,&rdquo;
and &ldquo;execute.&rdquo;</para>
<para>Create Actions: Help: Reference: Limitations of Create Action: To start
an
action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>run-time help files</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: The files generated by the <command>dtdocbook</command> command.
These are the files
distributed to users who will use the help system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>running</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: DtMessage 15, an error message: Executing, as in &ldquo;the
program
is running.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>sash</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A box on a separator or split bar that enables you to increase or decrease
the
size of a window pane. You can navigate to the sash using the keyboard.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A box on a split bar through which users can
directly
manipulate the split bar to change the sizes of associated panes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>saturation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Style Manager Modify Color Dialog Box:
The
purity of a color. The saturation of a color is that quality of a color that
changes
as it is mixed with white.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Save</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to store an item onto a storage device, such as a disk
or
diskette.</para>
<para>Style Manager: dtstyle.msg:DtMessage set 10, an error message: To store
or
preserve for later use.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Save As</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to create a new item from an existing item and leave
the
existing item as it was.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Save As Defaults Option</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Application Manager View menu: Use to save the current
filter
and view settings.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Save As dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A common variation of the standard file selection dialog box. The Save
As
dialog box is a file selection dialog box used to save and name (or rename)
a
file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>saveback</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The ability of drag and drop to write modified data back to the originating
file.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Saver</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen Saver dialog box: An instance of a screen saver.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scalable typeface</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A mathematical outline for a typeface used by a scalable type renderer
to
create a bitmapped font for a particular size and display resolution when
needed by a program. Sometimes called &ldquo;outline font&rdquo; or &ldquo;scalable
font.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scale</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: See <emphasis>slider</emphasis>.</para>
<para>Icon Editor: Edit menu: Use to create a copy of a selected region, changing
the
size and shape (determined by the aspect ratio of a range selection). Compare
with <emphasis>Magnification</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Schedule</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse: Compare Calendars: button: Displays the Group
Appointment Editor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scope</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The attribute of a message or pattern that determines how
widely the
ToolTalk service looks for matching messages or patterns.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scope of selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area containing related elements that the
user can
select. Synonymous with &ldquo;selection scope.&rdquo;</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Screen</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Style Manager: Screen dialog box: Use to turn screen saver on/off,
set time-
out, select which screen saver to use, enable/disable screen lock.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The physical surface of a display device on
which
information is shown to users.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Screen Blanker</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A control that turns automatic screen
blanking on and off. Used in systems that do not have the screen lock
extensions that enable the automatic starting of screen savers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Screen Control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to control the behavior
of
the window and the cursor in the Terminal application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>screen lock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A function that locks the workstation screen, barring further input
until the
valid user password is entered.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Screen lock extensions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Style Manager Screen Dialog Box: The
capability of a system to lock the screen when the screen times out.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Screen Saver</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A choice that, after a specified time period, switches off the workstation
display or varies the images that are displayed, thereby preventing raster
burn
of the screen.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scroll</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To move the cursor through data one increment at a time. While scrolling,
data shifts within the window to indicate the current position of the cursor.
</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: To incrementally shift the contents of the
elements
being viewed through a control or window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scroll bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A control located at the right or bottom of a window that enables
you to
display window content not currently visible.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A user-interface element associated with an
area
that can be scrolled. The scroll bar indicates to a user that more information
is
available, or can be added in a horizontal or vertical direction, and can
be
scrolled into view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Scroll Bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options menu: Use to enable or disable the scroll bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Scroll Behavior</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to control the scrolling
behavior in the Terminal Emulator.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scroll box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The part of a scroll bar that shows the position of the visible information
relative to the total amount of information available in a window. You click
on
a scroll box with a pointing device and manipulate it to see information that
is
not currently visible.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>scroll track</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Within a scroll bar, the rectangular region that contains the scroll
box. You
move the scroll box within the scroll track.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to search data in an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>search data</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 15, message 27: A search string used for searching
on file
contents.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search Folder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to search data in an application.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: File: Find: Use this field to specify a search path.
</para>
<para>3) File Manager: Set 15, message 23. Also Find Files or Directories
dialog box:
A search path.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: How Image Files are Found: A list of directories
used to order and define searches for files or folders.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search Results window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: a window that displays a list of sections that
contain search matches. The Information Manager displays a Search Results
window upon completion of a search.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>search scope</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The scope of books and types of information that an Information Manager
query will search.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search Scope Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: The dialog box that allows you to create custom
search scopes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search Text</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Search Text (Grep) action
searches for all occurrences of a string within a set of files using the <command>grep</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Search Volume Selection dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A dialog box that lists the help volumes available on a user's
system.
When a user chooses Selected from the Index Search dialog box, this dialog
box
lists help volumes that the user can select. One or more volume names can
be
selected and the corresponding index information is reported in the Index
Search dialog box.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>secondary key mapping</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A key assignment to a function made in
addition
to the standard Motif/CDE functional key assignment. For example, Control-z
is mapped to the Undo function in Motif/CDE. An optional secondary key
mapping of Alt-Backspace may be assigned to the Undo function to assist
users of other systems.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>secondary pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Common Dialogs: The part of an expandable window
that
reveals additional function. See <emphasis>expandable window</emphasis> and <emphasis>primary pane</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>secondary window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A window that is displayed when you make a choice in the main window
that display another window. If you close the main window, the secondary
window is also closed. Called a &ldquo;dialog box&rdquo; in CDE.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A window dependent on another window, either
primary or secondary, that is used to supplement the interaction in that
window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>section</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A single unit of documentation that is displayed within an Information
Manager reading window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>select</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To add highlighting or some other visual cue to an item or element
so that it
can be operated or enabled. Selection does not imply the initiation of an
action
but rather a change of state, such as highlighting an item in a list, or toggling
a
check box on.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: To explicitly identify one or more elements
with
which to interact.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Select (color)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: button label: The color in a color set that is used to
indicate the
selection of certain controls and the trough of sliders. Icon Editor provides
the
select color in its palette or drawing colors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Select All</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to select all of the items or data in a window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>SELECT button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A mouse button that is used to select elements, activate elements,
and move
the pointer. By default, the SELECT button functions are applied to mouse
button 1.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The button on a pointing device that the user
presses to make a selection. On a mouse, it is always bound to mouse button
1.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Select Printer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: Use to obtain information about available printers and
select a printer to use.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Select tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: tool palette: Use to select an area of an icon image for
further
manipulation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Selected</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu-bar item: Use to access choices that apply to the selected objects
in the
current view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selected emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A visual cue that shows that an object or data is selected. Referred
to as
&ldquo;highlight&rdquo; on other desktop GUIs.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue that indicates that an element
is
selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A selected object or group of objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A combination text-list control in which both
the text
field and the list box are visible at all times, along with a group of related
push
buttons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>SELECTION button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Preferred term is <emphasis>SELECT button</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection dialog box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A dialog box containing a selection box, possibly
with
other controls added to it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A description of how selection works in a selection
scope, including the selection techniques available in the scope, the available
and default selection modes, and the selection policies used in the scope.
Motif&numsp;1.2 term. See <emphasis>selection technique</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection modes</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Modes that determine whether selection techniques
select or toggle the selection state of identified elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection policies</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>selection technique</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>selection technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The method by which users identify elements to
be
selected or deselected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>semi-automatic help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A style of online help in which the user requests help and the
system
decides, based on the current circumstances, which help information to
display. &ldquo;Context-sensitive&rdquo; help (pressing the F1 key) is an
example of semi-
automatic help. See also <emphasis>automatic help</emphasis> and <emphasis>manual help</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Send</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: button: Use to deliver an electronic mail message.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>separator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A boundary, such as blank space, a line, or color change, that provides
a visual
distinction between two adjacent areas.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A system that supplies services to a client.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>sessid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Identifies the ToolTalk session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A particular configuration of workspaces that includes Style Manager
settings, open applications, and the size and position of objects.</para>
<para>2) The elapsed time between user <emphasis>login</emphasis> and <emphasis>logout</emphasis>.</para>
<para>3) Login screen: Options menu: Use to choose the type of session to
log in to.</para>
<para>4) ToolTalk: A group of processes that are related either by the same
desktop or
the same process tree.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>session language</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login Manager: Help: The national language used for user interface,
messages,
and help text in a desktop session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Session Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A desktop software application that controls saving sessions, restoring
sessions, screen locking and unlocking, and the use of screen savers. When
a
session is saved, the state of the desktop environment (location of icons,
size
and location of open windows, open/closed status of applications, current
color palette, and so on) are preserved so that it can be restored at the
next
login.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>session server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A system that provides networked sessions. Session files reside on the
session
server and are used whenever you log in to a system on the network.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Set Filter Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: In File Manager and Application Manager, a
control
through which the user can select attributes of icons to use in excluding
those
icons from a view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Set Home Session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Startup dialog box: Use to save current home session
settings.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Set Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Print Manager: View menu: Use to define the properties of the Print
Manager
view area, such as the method of representing printer and job objects.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Set View Options</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: Use to change appearance and behavior of the
File
Manager window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Settings</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Mailer: Compose window: Format menu: Settings: Display a dialog box
for
setting margins and paragraph alignment, and applying format settings to a
single message.</para>
<para>2) Text Editor: Format menu: Use to format text in different ways.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Setup</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A button in a CDE desktop application's print dialog box
that allows the user to select additional print job and printer
attributes. See <emphasis>Print Setup</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>SGML</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>Standard Generalized Markup Language</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Short (Contents type)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: Use to identify a contents pattern in a Create
Action
data-type definition as a short decimal value.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>shortcut</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>General term for a mouse gesture that simplifies filling out a dialog
box. For
example: As a shortcut, double-click an item in the Filename list box to select
it
and choose OK in one action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>shortcut key</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A keyboard key sequence used to activate a menu item. This can be
a key
sequence that uses a special accelerator key, or an underlined letter sequence.
For example: Press Alt+F4 or Alt+F+P to choose Print from the File menu.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A key or combination of keys assigned to a
menu
item that activates that choice, even if the associated menu is not currently
displayed, such as Alt+F4 for Close. Synonymous with <emphasis>accelerator</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Button or menu item: Use to display information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show Appointment</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Find dialog box. Use to display information about the calendar
appointment highlighted in the scrolling list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show Contents During Move</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Window dialog box: Use to move both the window and its
contents instead of moving just the outline of the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show Hidden Objects</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: Use to alternately hide and expose files and
folders
in the File Manager view that are filtered.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show Icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: File: New File dialog box: Use to display the data type
of a
selected file or directory.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Show Other Calendar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Browse menu: Use to browse the calendar of another user that
you
infrequently browse and that you do not want to add to the list of users whose
calendar you frequently browse.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Shred</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Trash Can: File menu: Use to delete the selected objects in the Trash
Can.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Shred File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Shred File (Rm) action
uses
the <command>rm -i</command> command to remove files without placing them
in the Trash Can. It
prompts you with the name of each file and enables you to indicate whether
the file should be removed. Files that have been shredded cannot be recovered.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Shuffle Down</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Workspace menu: Moves the window that is on top of the window stack
to the
bottom of the window stack.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Shuffle Up</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Workspace menu: Moves the window that is on the bottom of the window
stack to the top of the window stack.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>signatures</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A pattern in a ptype or otype. A signature can contain values
for
disposition and operation numbers.</para>
<itemizedlist remap="Bullet1">
<listitem><para>Ptype signatures <emphasis>(</emphasis>&ldquo;psignatures&rdquo;)
describe the procedural messages that the
program is expecting.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Otype signatures (&ldquo;osignatures&rdquo;) define the messages
that can be addressed
to objects of the type.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>single selection model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection model in which at most one element
can
be selected, using a point technique.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Size</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to change the size of a window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>size border</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A window border whose corners and edges can be used to size the window.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>slide-up</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use; use <emphasis>subpanel</emphasis> to refer to the element
in the Front Panel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>slider</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A control that uses a track and arm to set a value from among the
available
values. The position of the arm (or a separate indicator) gives the currently
set
value.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that represents a value. When a
slider is
used to display a particular value amid a range of possible values, it typically
shows a scale marked in equal units.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>slider arm</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The part of a slider that shows the current value of the slider and
enables
you to change the value.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The part of a slider that shows the current
value of
the slider and enables the user to change the value.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>slider track</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The part of the slider that contains the slider arm.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Smooth Scrolling</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to enable or disable
smooth
scrolling, which scrolls a single line at a time. Contrast with jump scroll.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>snap back</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: An animation effect in which an
object
appears to be pulled back to its original location. Used to signal a failed
drop
action.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Soft Reset</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal Emulator: Options: Reset menu: Use to send the control sequence
to
force a reload of the default behavior.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>software application</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A computer program that provides you with tools to do work. Style Manager,
Text Editor, and File Manager are examples of software applications.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>solids</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Fill Solids radio button: Closed Icon Editor figures such
as
rectangles, circles, ellipses, triangles, and polygons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Sort</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to arrange icons in a view into a specified order.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>source</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: 1) <emphasis>noun:</emphasis> The
object that is selected,
dragged, and dropped in a drag-and-drop action. 2) <emphasis>verb</emphasis>:
To initiate a drag-and-drop operation with a particular object or location.
Do not use as a verb.
Use <emphasis>initiate</emphasis> or <emphasis>start</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) CDE Certification Checklist: The object that is selected, dragged,
and
dropped in a drag-and-drop action. The object that is
selected and moved,
copied, cut, pasted, or linked in a data transfer or file manipulation operation.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>source element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: An element that is the source of a data transfer
operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>source emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A visual cue that shows the object from which you made a request or
initiated
a direct manipulate operation.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue that indicates the element from
which a
user made a request or initiated a transfer operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>source indicator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Drag and Drop: The part of a drag icon that represents the thing
being
dragged.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The part of the pointer displayed during drag
and
drop that describes the source.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spatial view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A view of a container in which the user can place
an
object at an x,y location subject to layout constraints.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spec</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: See <emphasis>object specification</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spin box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control used to display a sequenced ring
of related but mutually exclusive choices, such as days of the week. The accepted
value is displayed in a text element; optionally this is an editable text
field into which the user can type a valid choice. A spin box may have multiple text
elements; if so, the element of field affected by the user's action in the
spin box is the element or field that displays the active cursor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>split bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that separates panes in a window or
paned
box and enables the user to change the size of the panes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>split window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A window that is split into multiple panes by
one or
more split bars and that allows an application to display views in each pane.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spring-loaded</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A state of a menu where it remains only
as long as
a mouse button is being held down. Compare with <emphasis>posted</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spring-loaded control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A kind of cascaded or pop-up control that is
removed
when the user makes a choice within the control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spring-loaded menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu that is a spring-loaded control. It is
either a
cascaded menu or a pop-up menu (that is, not a tear-off menu or a menu bar).
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>spring-sensitive</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A mode of a displayed control in which moving
the
pointer within the control over a cascading choice displays its associated
cascaded control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>stacking order</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The order that determines the parts of windows that are visible when
overlapping windows are displayed simultaneously.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The order in which windows of an interface
or
elements within a window or control are stacked one on top of the other. See
also <emphasis>automatic stacking order</emphasis> and <emphasis>manual stacking
order</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>standalone help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help information intended to be used independently of application software.
For example, online help that explains the basics of computer programming
may not be associated with a particular application. A standalone help volume
can be displayed using the <command>dthelpview</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>standard application font names</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A set of generic X Window System font names, provided in all X servers
that
can run the CDE desktop, consisting of the designs, styles, and point sizes
most commonly used in applications. These standard names enable application
developers to provide a single <filename>app-defaults</filename> file to specify
an application's
default fonts so that the application can find its default fonts on all CDE
platforms.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>standard font name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A font name from one of the two sets of CDE standard font names, the
CDE
<emphasis>standard application font names</emphasis> and the CDE <emphasis>standard interface font names</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An international standard [ISO 8879: 1986] that establishes a method
for
information interchange. SGML prescribes constructs for marking the structure
of information separate from its intended presentation or format. The DocBook
markup language conforms to this SGML standard.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>standard interface font names</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A set of X Window System generic font names, provided in all X servers
that
can run the CDE desktop, consisting of a few typefaces needed for the
elements of the CDE Desktop graphical user interface (such as buttons, labels,
text fields). These standard names enable the CDE desktop to work across all
CDE platforms using a single <filename>app-defaults</filename> file. They
enable CDE vendors to
provide their best user interface fonts on their own platform, and use a
standard name.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>standard normal mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The normal mode used in conjunction with selection
scopes that use an element cursor (and optionally a text cursor) in which
navigation deselects all elements except the element (if any) to which the
cursor moves.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Start</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Appointment Editor: field: Use to set the time a calendar
appointment starts. See <emphasis>End</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: File menu: Find dialog box: push button: Use to begin
a
process which could take a long time to complete. See <emphasis>Stop</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Start Blanker</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A control that enables you to set
the time
that must elapse before the screen may be blacked out. Used in systems that
do
not have the screen lock extensions that enable automatic starting of screen
savers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Start Byte</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: The byte position within a file that is examined
to
find a contents pattern in a Create Action data-type definition.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Start Over</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login screen: A push button that clears any data entered in the Login
text
entry box and the password text entry box so that a user can retry the login
sequence.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Start Saver</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A control that enables you to set
the time
that must elapse before a screen saver is displayed. Used in systems that
have
screen lock extensions.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Startup</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Startup dialog box: Use to specify logout confirmation
information and set the home session.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>startup script</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: DtMessage 13: an error message: A shell script that is
used to
start the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>state indicator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Drag and Drop: The part of a drag icon that is used as a pointer
for
positioning combined with feedback that shows whether a drop zone is valid
or invalid.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The part of the pointer displayed during drag
and
drop that indicates whether the pointer is at a place where a drop is likely
to
result in a successful operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>static color</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: A color that is not modifiable by the Style Manager Color
dialog
box settings. Icon Editor includes a palette of static colors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>static gray</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: A gray tone that is not modifiable by the Style Manager
Color
dialog box settings. Icon Editor includes a palette of static grays.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>static message patterns</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Provides an easy way to specify the ToolTalk message pattern
information if you want to receive a defined set of messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>status area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A part of a window where information is displayed that shows the
state of
an object or the state of a particular view of an object.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A specific part of a window used to display
information about the state of the current application task.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>stderr</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Error Messages: In UNIX, the default
destination
for error messages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>stdout</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Error Messages: In UNIX, the default
destination
for output.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Stop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to end a process and remove a window.</para>
<para>2) File Manager: File: Find dialog box: push button: Use to terminate
a lengthy
process. See <emphasis>Start</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>string</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Tasks: To Find a File by Contents: A series of contiguous
characters, possibly including the &ldquo;blank&rdquo; character.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>String (contents type)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: Advanced Functions: Add Data Type: Edit: Identifying
Characteristics dialog box: Use to identify a contents pattern in a Create
Action
data-type definition as a literal string.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Style Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application used to customize some of the visual elements
and
system device behaviors of the workspace environment, including colors and
fonts, and keyboard, mouse, window, and session start-up behaviors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>style sheet</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A document that defines the formatting characteristics of
on-line and printed documents. The Information Manager and Help Manager
use default style sheets supplied with CDE for their on-line display and printing.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>subdirectory</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A directory contained within another directory (sometimes called the <emphasis>parent
directory</emphasis>). Use only in reference to a parent directory. See <emphasis>subfolder</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>subfolder</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A folder contained within another folder (sometimes called the <emphasis>parent folder</emphasis>).
Use only in reference to a parent folder. See <emphasis>subdirectory</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Subject</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: text field: Use to describe the subject matter
of the
email message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>submenu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A menu displayed by choosing an item from a menu.</para>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A menu that cascades
from a
higher-level menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>subpanel</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: An extension of the Front Panel that slides up providing
access to
additional components. Subpanels usually contain groups of related
components. Do not use the term slide-up to refer to the subpanel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>subpanel posting arrow</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel control: Use to display and remove a subpanel.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>suffix</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: How Image Files Are Found: A part of a
file
name, added at the end, separated from other suffixes or the base file name
by
some punctuation, such as a period (.). Often used in file typing or to
categorize files for the user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Suffix</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The extension that optionally follows the base portion of a file name.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>superuser</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A login identity that enables special permissions for modifying system
files
that most users do not have permission to modify. Superuser is also called
&ldquo;the
root user&rdquo; or &ldquo;root&rdquo; because the user ID for superuser is <command>root</command>. On most
computer systems, only a few users have permission to become superuser.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Suspend Desktop</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login: Message set 1: Message 18: To temporarily exit the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>switch area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: The rectangular area in the center of the Front Panel that
contains
the workspace switches, the Lock control, the Exit button, and the Busy Light.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>switch to</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Set 2: To move the current view to or bring into a File
Manager
window. As in the UNIX command, <command>cd</command>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>symbolic link</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A type of link that is capable of pointing to a file or directory that
resides on
another physical storage device or partition.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Symbols List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Symbols List (Nm) action
lists
the symbol table of an object file or library file. This action uses the <command>nm</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>synopsis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A representation of the message in a syntax similar to that
understood by the ToolTalk type compiler <filename>tt_type_comp</filename>.
The format is
essentially</para>
<programlisting>[fileAttrib] opName( requiredArgs, [optionalArgs] );</programlisting>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>synthetic data attribute</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A data type added to the DATA_CRITERIA/DATA_ATTRIBUTES entries that
is created when an action is loaded. It has no representation in the <filename>*.dt</filename> files
except as an action entry. Note that this attribute should not be set in <filename>*.dt</filename> files and is only used internally.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>system</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The computer, any peripheral devices, the operating system, and
applications.</para>
<para>2) The operating system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>System_Admin</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: A default application group that contains system
administration tools and utilities.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>system beep</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Style Manager Beep Dialog Box: A sound
generated by the system to alert the user to messages or that an error has
occurred.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>system default session</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Startup dialog box: The contents and arrangements of
workspaces in the desktop as it comes up the first time it is started.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>System Load</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The System Load (Xload) action
displays a graphical view of the system load. This action uses the <command>xload</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>system modal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: A state of a window
that prevents user interaction with any other control outside of that window.
Contrast with <emphasis>application modal</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>system-wide icons</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Icon File-Name Conventions: Storing Icon
Files: Icons that can be accessed by all users.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tab group</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A group of user interface controls, such as a group of radio buttons,
that you can navigate to using the Tab key.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tab group navigation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Navigation among tab groups within a window.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Table of Contents</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Use to display the online Table of Contents topic.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A standard graphics file format. The Help system dialog boxes
support TIFF 5.0 images. TIFF images are identified by the <filename>.tif</filename> file-name suffix.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>target element</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The element that is the target of a data transfer
<?Pub Caret>operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>target emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A visual cue that shows the object that receives the results of a direct
manipulation operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>target well</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control used as the destination of a transfer
operation in order to transfer elements into an associated selection scope.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Tasks</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help menu: Displays the help viewer containing task-oriented steps for
using the application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tear-off choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A tear-off choice is a kind of action choice
used to tear off a control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tear-off menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu that is torn off from a spring-loaded
menu using the tear-off choice within the original menu and that is placed
within a secondary window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>technique initiation policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: In a selection scope that supports both touch
and area techniques, specifies which technique is initiated in which circumstances.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Templates</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: Format menu: ASCII files you create for purposes
of convenience such as your own email address or some personalized items
at the bottom of the message. Use the Templates menu item to insert a pre-
constructed template into your email message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>term pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the objects on the Panes palette of the
primary window. A term pane is a terminal emulation object which accepts
user input and echoes standard output.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Terminal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Personal Applications subpanel: Use to open a terminal
emulator window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Terminal (window)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button: A type of window associated with an action
when the action requires a terminal emulator window to run.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Terminal Console</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Terminal Console action
starts a <command>dtterm</command> terminal emulator as the user's console.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>terminal emulator</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A window that emulates a particular type of terminal for running nonwindow
programs. Terminal emulator windows are most commonly used for typing commands
to interact with the computer's operating system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Terminal Remote</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Terminal Remote action
prompts the user for the name of a system and starts a <command>dtterm</command>
terminal emulator on that system. The system must be properly configured
for remote execution.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Terminal Rlogin</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Terminal Rlogin action
prompts the user for the name of a system, opens a <command>dtterm</command>
terminal emulator window, and then performs an <command>rlogin</command>
to that system.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>test mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The mode used to test connections, help, and other
functions in a user interface. See <emphasis>build mode</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text cursor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A cursor that shows the insertion point for textual input. Usually
takes the form of an I-beam. Contrast with <emphasis>location cursor</emphasis>
and <emphasis>pointer</emphasis>.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A cursor that identifies a point between adjacent
characters in text within a selection scope.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text-display field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control in which non-editable alphanumeric
text can be displayed and selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Text Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application used to create and edit documents.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Text Editor control</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Use to start the Text Editor software application. Dropping
a file on this control loads the file into the Text Editor application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Text Editor (Vi)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Text Editor (Vi) action
runs the <command>vi</command> command in a terminal emulator window and
loads a data file if you supply one.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text-entry field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>text field</emphasis>, which is the preferred CDE term.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text field</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A rectangular area in a window where information is typed. Text fields
with keyboard focus have a blinking text insertion cursor.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text normal mode</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A normal mode that can be used in conjunction
with selection scopes that use text cursors, in which navigation deselects
all elements but that also supports the range click technique.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text pane</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: One of the objects on the panes palette of the
primary window. A text pane consists of a text area and vertical scroll bars.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Text Path</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View: Set View Options dialog box: Headers. Use to show
the full path name of the current folder below the menu bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>text path header</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Reference: File Manager Window: An optionally displayed
area of the File Manager window that presents the current path in a specialized
type of text field.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Threshold</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: The speed at which the mouse must be
moved before the pointer moves at an accelerated speed. This accelerated
speed is set by the <emphasis>Acceleration</emphasis> control.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tile</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A rectangular area used to cover a surface with a pattern or visual
texture. Workspace Manager backdrops are constructed by tiling pixmaps or
bitmaps.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Time</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Appointment Editor and Group Appointment Editor: A label for
the appointment list that identifies the start time of an appointment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Time Per Background</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A slider control that sets the duration
of the presentation of lock backgrounds when multiple lock backgrounds are
selected. Used in systems that do not have the screen lock extensions that
enable the automatic starting of screen savers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Time Per Saver</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A slider control that sets the duration
of the presentation of screen savers when multiple screen savers are selected.
Used in systems with screen lock extensions that enable the automatic starting
of screen savers.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Time Zone</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Use to temporarily change time zones when you browse
a calendar in a different time zone.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>timeout</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: References: Style Manager Screen Dialog Box: A
software timer that measures the elapsed time with no keyboard or mouse activity,
used to trigger a screen lock.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>title bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The topmost area of a window containing the window title.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The area at the top of each window that contains
the Window menu button, a window title, and the maximize and minimize buttons.
See also <emphasis>window title</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>To</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Compose window: text field: Use to specify email addresses of
the people to receive the mail message.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>To Do</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Edit menu: Displays the To Do Editor, which you can use to
create, edit, or delete a To Do item on your calendar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>To Do Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Edit: To Do: Use to create, edit, or delete a To Do item.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>To Do List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Provides a chronological list of To Do items by
day, week, month, or year, depending on the Calendar view displayed. You
can use this list to check off completed items.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Today</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: tool bar: Use to change the calendar display to the current
day.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>toggle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To change the state of a two-state control, such as a radio button
or check box, using either the mouse or keyboard.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: a) To interact with the representation of
a choice in order to set or unset it. b) To switch the selection state of
an element or group of elements.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>toggle removal policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that determines the selection
state of elements removed from the current selection region during adjusted
toggling.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>toggling policy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection policy that determines exactly how
the selection states of elements identified by a selection technique are
toggled when they are not all either selected or deselected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Tone</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Beep dialog box: The frequency or pitch of a sound. Use
to modify the frequency of the system beep.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tool</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A method to do a specific task, for example, check spelling, or a
small application such as Clock. Synonym for &ldquo;utility.&rdquo;</para>
<para>2) Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Getting Started with Icon Editor: A
specialized pointer, selected from a palette that enables the user to perform
various operations.</para>
<para>3) Create Action: message set 5: message 65: A utility application.
</para>
<para>4) Create Action: Help: Software utility, application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tool bar</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A commonly used name for the palette at the top
of the window below the menu bar.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tool manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: A program used to coordinate the development tools in the
environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ToolBox</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>application group.</emphasis></para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ToolTalk</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A message service that facilitates information exchange between applications
from different developers and enables application interoperability.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ToolTalk Types Database</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The database that stores ToolTalk type information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Top Level button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: Help Viewer window: Use to display the list of help families available
on the desktop.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>topic</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: Information about a specific subject. Usually, this is approximately
one screenful of information. Online help topics are linked to one another
through hyperlinks.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>topic hierarchy</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: A help volume's branching structure in which the home topic branches
out (via hyperlinks) to progressively more detailed topics. See also <emphasis>home topic</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Topic Tree</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help: In a general help window, a scrollable list of topics that can
be selected to display help information.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>TopShadow</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: button: The color in a color set that is used for the top
and left-side beveled edges of raised elements such as buttons or the bottom
and right-side beveled edges of recessed elements. Icon Editor provides the
TopShadow color in a palette of drawing colors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>touch swipe technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A touch technique in which an element is added
to the current selection by moving the pointer over it.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>touch technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A selection technique in which &ldquo;touched&rdquo;
elements are added one at a time to the current selection.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Transfer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Mouse dialog box: A setting of the MANIPULATION button
(mouse button 2) that assigns the functions of moving and pasting text</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>TRANSFER button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Sometimes used to refer to the MANIPULATION button when in Transfer
mode.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The button (or virtual button) on a pointing
device that is used for data transfer operations. On a three-button mouse
it is bound by default to mouse button 2, but may also be integrated with
selection and bound to mouse button 1.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>transfer icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A pointer icon that is used to
represent the object or data transferred in a move, copy, or link operation.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>transfer model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>transfer technique</emphasis>, <emphasis>clipboard transfer</emphasis>, <emphasis>primary transfer</emphasis>, <emphasis>quick transfer</emphasis>, and <emphasis>drag and drop</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>transfer operation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A move, copy, or link operation.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>transfer technique</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A technique for performing data transfer
operations such as moving, copying, or linking. See <emphasis>clipboard transfer</emphasis>, <emphasis>primary transfer</emphasis>, <emphasis>quick transfer</emphasis>, and <emphasis>drag and drop</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Transparent</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor:Dynamic Colors button: A &ldquo;color&rdquo; that allows
the color of the background area to show through. Icon Editor provides the
transparent color in a palette of drawing colors.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Transparent Lock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A setting choice that specifies that
the screen contents remain visible when the Front Panel Lock is activated.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Trash Can</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) File Manager: A container for deleted files.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An object to which the user drags and drops
another object in order to delete the object. The object to be deleted stays
in the Trash Can until the user deletes the object or until removed automatically
as specified by the operating environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tree view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: A view of a folder or files that includes all lower-level
folders in the search path.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>tt_type_comp</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The ToolTalk type compiler.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ttdbck</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Check and repair tool for the ToolTalk database.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>ttsession</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The ToolTalk communication process.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) To enter text through the keyboard. For example: Type the file name
into the Filename text box.</para>
<para>2) ToolTalk: A programmer-defined string that describes what kind of
data a message argument contains. The ToolTalk service only uses vtypes to
match sent message instances with registered message patterns.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Type File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Type File (File) action
determines the type of a file using the <command>file</command> command.
This type is not the same as the desktop data type for the file. To determine
the desktop data type of a file, select the file and choose Properties from
the File menu of a File Manager view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Types and Actions</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Types and Actions (Dttypes)
action runs the <command>dttypes</command> utility, which provides troubleshooting
information for the actions and data types database.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>UDC</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>user-defined character</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>UDC Data Exchanger</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that allows system administrators of internationalized
CDEs (especially East Asian CDEs) to exchange glyph images of user-defined
characters between systems.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>UDC Font Editor</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that allows system administrators of internationalized
CDEs (especially East Asian CDEs) to create and modify user-defined characters
(UDCs) and construct UDC font files. See <emphasis>user-defined character</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>unavailable</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A window element that cannot be selected in the current context. For
example: The OK button is unavailable until you select an item in the list.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>unavailable choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A choice that is not available.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>unavailable emphasis</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A visible cue that indicates that a choice or
control is not available. Compare to <emphasis>insensitive</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Uncompress File</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Uncompress File action
accepts one or more files that have been compressed using the compress command
and uncompresses them. This action uses the <command>uncompress</command>
command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Undelete From List</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Message menu: Use to choose a message to &ldquo;bring back&rdquo;
from a list of messages you've recently removed (deleted).</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Undelete Last</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Message menu: Use to &ldquo;bring back&rdquo; the message you
last removed (deleted) from the list.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Undo</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Menu item: Use to reverse the effect of the most recently performed
operation.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Units</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: field: Use to specify
the number of consecutive Calendar views to print. For example, with Month
view displayed, choosing 2 units will print the month displayed plus the
next month. Contrast with <emphasis>Copies</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>unlock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Session Manager: Message set 18: Message 1T: To enable screen input
by entering a password when the screen is locked.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Unoccupy Workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Window menu: Use to remove a window from the current workspace. This
choice is available only if the window is in more than one workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Update</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: View menu: Use to change the state of a dialog box or
window so that it reflects the most recent modifications to the data or view
of that data. See also <emphasis>Refresh</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Use Backgrounds for Lock</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Screen dialog box: A setting choice specifying that a
Lock Background covers the screen contents when the Front Panel Lock is activated.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>User Calendar Location</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Display Settings: label: The name
of the system containing a user's calendar. It could be the user's own system
or a server. Calendar reads the initial value for this field at startup.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>user code</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The code added to the code generated by <command>dtcodegen</command> to complete the functionality of an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>user-defined character</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A character that is not part of a standard East Asian character set,
such as JIS X 0208 or KS C 5601, and has been specially created for a specific
purpose. User-defined characters are created to represent a person's name
exactly as it appears on a hand-written legal form, or to recreate an obsolete
character that is no longer defined in a standard character set.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>User Function Keys</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Terminal Options dialog box: Use to control whether
the user can map function keys to escape sequences. This setting can be locked
or unlocked.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>user interface</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: See <emphasis>interface</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>user model</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Drag and Drop: A user interface technique.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>User Name</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Access List and Permissions: field:
Use to add a calendar name to the Access List.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: File: Options: Category: Access List and Permissions: label:
The list of calendars to which you've specifically given access to your calendar.
</para>
<para>3) Calendar: Browse: Menu Editor: field: Enter a calendar to add to
the Browse menu list.</para>
<para>4) Calendar: Browse: Show Other Calendar: field: Enter the name of a
calendar that you want to browse once.</para>
<para>5) Login screen: An identifier for making a user known to the system.
Sometimes called a login name. For example, a user whose name is John Doe
might have the user name jdoe. Login prompts the user for his or her user
name.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Using Help</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Help information about how to use help dialog boxes. You get this information
by pressing F1 while using a help dialog box, or by choosing Using Help from
the Help menu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>utility</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Preferred term is <emphasis>tool</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Vacation</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Mailer: Mailbox: Mail Options: Category: Vacation: Use to send an automatic
response to a mail message received by your machine. The user-customizable
vacation message indicates that you are on a vacation or away from your
machine for awhile. In a vacation message you may want to indicate whom to
contact if there is an emergency.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>value</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Help: Reference: Style Manager Modify Color Dialog Box:
The brightness of a color. In the Style Manager Color dialog box, the value
or brightness of a color is that quality of a color that changes as it is
mixed with black.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>value choice</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A type of choice that allows the user to indicate
whether a value is set or unset (or in some circumstances, indeterminate).
Value choices can be presented, for example, in list boxes, radio buttons,
and check boxes.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>value set</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A control that contains a mutually exclusive
set of choices, each of which is usually labeled graphically.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Version</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Do not use. Use <emphasis>About</emphasis> instead.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>vertical writing</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The writing of characters or glyphs in columns (to be read from top
to bottom) rather than in rows (to be read from left to right or from right
to left). CDE supports top-to-bottom-right-to-left vertical writing,
which is characteristic of Asian languages.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>View</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Menu item: Use to access other menu items that enable you to choose
how an item is presented, how much information is presented, and in what
order it is presented, among others.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A presentation of (a) information by an application
in the viewing area of a window, or of (b) the representation of an object
within a window.</para>
<para>3) Information Manager: An icon and a menu item that allows you to open
a reading window on a selected section.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>view area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>File Manager: Help: Reference: File Manager Window: An area in a window
used to display objects or contents.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>viewing area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: One or more controls that together present a
coherent view of data or information in the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>virtual button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: A model used by the Motif/CDE Style
Guide and Checklist that defines mouse button functions independent of
the actual number of buttons on the mouse. The virtual buttons are: BSelect,
BTransfer, BAdjust, and BMenu.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Visible Grid</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Options menu: Use to show the grid that defines pixel locations
in the Icon Editor drawing area.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Volume</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Beep dialog box: The loudness or intensity of a sound.
The Style Manager Beep dialog box provides a control for adjusting the volume
of the system beep.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>warning</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information that warns the user about possible injury or unrecoverable
loss of data. See also <emphasis>caution</emphasis> and <emphasis>note</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>warning message</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A kind of action message that indicates that
although an undesirable condition might occur, the user can allow the process
to continue.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>warning signal</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A cue generated by the operating environment
to draw the user's attention to, or produce feedback about, an event or the
state of the user's task or of the environment A warning signal is presented
using an audible cue, a visible cue, or both.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>warp the pointer</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: An action taken by an application in which
the pointer is moved independently of pointing device movements made by the
user.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Watch Errors</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Watch Errors action opens
a terminal emulator window that continuously displays the contents of the
error log file <symbol role="variable">HomeDirectory</symbol><filename>/.dt/errorlog</filename> file. If the window is minimized, it automatically normalizes
when an error is received.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Week</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Changes the Calendar to display the selected week.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Week view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Displays a calendar week (Mon-Sun). Week view also displays
a grid of days and hours. Shaded areas show busy times and unshaded areas
show available times. Each day label in Week view (for example, Tue 22) is
a button that, when clicked, displays that day. The calendar display can
also be changed with the Previous view (left) or Next View (right) navigation
arrows or by choosing Day, Month, or Year view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Weight</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Information Manager: Query Editor: weight button: Use to specify the
relative importance of a term within a detailed search.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>What</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) Calendar: Appointment Editor and Group Appointment Editor: field:
Add text in the What field to describe a calendar appointment, such as a
description of the appointment or its location.</para>
<para>2) Calendar: To Do Editor: What field: Add text in the What field to
describe a calendar To Do item.</para>
<para>3) Calendar: label: A list of appointments or To Do items.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>widget</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The fundamental building block of graphical user interfaces. The
Motif widget set provides a variety of widgets suitable for constructing
an application user interface.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: A Motif term for an object used to hold data
and present an interface. This is only significant if you are using <command>dtcodegen</command> to generate code. Application Builder objects are composed
of one or more widgets.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Width</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: File: Options: Category: Printer Settings: field: Use to specify
the horizontal size of the printed image, in inches.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End User: A rectangular area on the display. Software applications
typically have one main window from which secondary windows, called dialog
boxes, can be opened.</para>
<para>2) Application Builder: One of the objects on the Windows palette of
the primary window&mdash;main window, custom dialog, or file selection dialog&mdash;used
as the basic building blocks of a user interface.</para>
<para>3) Style Manager: An area with visible boundaries that can be defined
so you can view an object or conduct a dialog with a program. Windows are
managed by the Window Manager.</para>
<para>4) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area with visible boundaries that can be
defined so that the user can view and interact with an application.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Background</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options: Global Options dialog box: Use to toggle between
normal and inverse mode for the window background.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Behavior</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Style Manager: Window dialog box: A group of settings that define how
windows become active and inactive, their raising and lowering behavior,
and their appearance during drag operations.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window border</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The outer area of the window frame. It is called
a <emphasis>size border</emphasis> if it supports sizing the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window cluster</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See <emphasis>window family</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window decorations</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>CDE Certification Checklist: Standard elements in the window frame.
The window decorations are: the window border, the resize border, the title
region, the Window menu button, the minimize button, the resize button, and
the maximize button.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window family</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A primary window and all secondary windows that
are directly or indirectly dependent on the primary window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window frame</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The outer area of a window, which supports window
management functions. The window frame includes the title bar, minimize
button, maximize button, Window menu button, and sizing borders.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) A minimized window.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A icon that represents a window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window icon box</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A window that contains window icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Information</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Window Information (Xwininfo)
action displays information about a window. When you run List Window Information,
the cursor changes to a cross, and you then click the window for which you
want the information. This action uses the <command>xwininfo</command> command.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window list</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An action that presents a list of all the open windows associated with
the window from which the action was selected.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: A program that provides users with the capability
to manipulate windows on the workspace; for example, opening, resizing,
moving, and closing windows.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The menu displayed by choosing the Window menu button. The menu
provides choices that manipulate the location or size of the window, such
as Move, Size, Minimize, and Maximize.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: A menu displayed from a window menu button
consisting of choices that affect the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window menu button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The control at the upper left corner of a window next to the title
bar. Choosing it displays the Window menu.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: The leftmost button on a title bar. When the
user activates this button, the window menu appears.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Properties</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Window Properties (Xprop)
action displays the properties stored on a window. When you run Window Properties,
the cursor changes to a cross, and you then click the window for which you
want the information. This action uses the <command>xprop</command> command.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Size</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Terminal: Options menu: Use to set the size of the current Terminal
Emulator window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>window title</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: The area on a title bar that contains a short
description of the contents of the window or the name of the object being
viewed in the window.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Window Type</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Create Action: option button label: A choice of windows that an action
will run in.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>windows palette</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Builder: The primary window palette that contains window
objects&mdash;main window, custom dialog, or file selection dialog. See <emphasis>palette</emphasis>.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Word Wrap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A CDE desktop application editing or display mode that prevents
the truncation of lines that are too long to fit in a window
or on a printed page.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>work area</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The part of a window where controls and text appear.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>workspace</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) The current screen display, the icons and windows it contains, and
the unoccupied screen area where icons can be placed.</para>
<para>2) Motif/CDE Style Guide: An area that holds elements that make up the
user interface.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>workspace background</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The portion of the display not covered by windows or icons.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Workspace button</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Front Panel: Control in the Front Panel used to switch between workspaces.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>workspace icon</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An icon that has been copied from File Manager to the workspace.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Workspace Manager</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The software application that controls the size, placement, and operation
of windows within multiple workspaces.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Workspace menu</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The menu displayed by pointing at an unoccupied area of the workspace
and clicking mouse button 3.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>workspace object</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>An object that resides in a workspace, rather than inside a viewer in
a windows. Workspace objects include windows, minimized windows, and File
Manager objects that have been moved out of File Manager and into a workspace.
When referring to File Manager objects, use <emphasis>file</emphasis>, <emphasis>folder</emphasis>, or <emphasis>icon</emphasis>, wherever possible. Use the
term <emphasis>object</emphasis> only when the more specific term may be misleading.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>workspace switch</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A control that enables you to select one workspace from among several
workspaces.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Wrap To Fit</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See Word Wrap.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Wrap To Fit toggle</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>See Word Wrap.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>wrapped shell commands</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: Enhanced shell commands. These commands safely perform common
file operations on ToolTalk files.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Write</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Permission, as in Read, Write, Execute.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>WYSIWYG</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Motif/CDE Style Guide: Application Design Principles: What You See Is
What You Get. A user interface style that presents data such as text or graphics
in the same manner that it is subsequently printed.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X bitmap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Getting Started with Icon Editor: Two-color
images limited to a foreground and a background color. Also known as XBM
format.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X pixmap</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Help: Concepts: Getting Started with Icon Editor: Multicolored
images that include static and dynamic colors. Also known as XPM format.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X Print Service</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>The collection of components that allow X rendering on non-display devices.
X Print Service components include the X Print Server, the Print Dialog Manager,
and the X Print Extension API.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X-server</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Login Help: A server that supplies the windowing environment.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X Server Information</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The X Server Information
(Xdpyinfo) action displays information about your X server and display system.
This action uses the <command>xdpyinfo</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X window dump</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>1) End User: An xwd graphic file.</para>
<para>2) Help: An image captured from an X Window System display. The <command>xwd</command> utility is used to capture a window image. X window dump image
files are identified by the <filename>.xwd</filename> file-name suffix.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>X Window System</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>A program that provides the building blocks for creating and managing
windows across displays. It allows applications to be displayed locally even
if the application is running remotely across the network. The CDE window
manager is built on the X Window System.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>XBM</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Options: Output Format: See <emphasis>X bitmap</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>xdr format tables</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>ToolTalk: The types database that is read when <command>ttsession</command>
is invoked.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>XPM</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Icon Editor: Options: Output Format: See <emphasis>X pixmap</emphasis>.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Xterm</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Xterm action starts an <command>xterm</command> terminal emulator.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Xterm Remote</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Xterm Remote action prompts
the user for the name of a system and starts an <command>xterm</command>
terminal emulator on that system. The system must be properly configured
for remote execution.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Xterm Rlogin</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Xterm Rlogin action prompts
the user for the name of a system, opens an <command>xterm</command> terminal
emulator window, and then performs an <command>rlogin</command> to that system.
</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Xwd Capture</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Xwd Capture (Xwd) action
takes a snapshot of a window and stores it in an xwd graphics file. When
you run the action the cursor changes to a cross, and you must then click
on the window you want to capture. The action uses the <command>xwd</command>
command. Xwd stands for X Window Dump.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Xwd Display</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Application Manager: Desktop_Tools folder: The Xwd Display (Xwud) action
displays an xwd file that was created using the Xwd Capture (Xwd) action.
This action uses the <command>xwud</command> command.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Year</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: View menu: Changes the Calendar view to display the selected
year.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
<glossentry><glossterm>Year view</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>Calendar: Displays a calendar year. The display can be changed with
the Previous view (left) or Next View (right) navigation arrows or by choosing
Day, Week, or Month view.</para>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</glossary>
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