NWE Help: XWindows

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The NWE uses the X Windows system to provide an easy to use graphical user interface for its Sun Solaris application servers. These pages provide a brief but important introduction to this GUI system, which is slightly different from the Microsoft Windows or MacOS user interface with which you may be familiar.

• Logging in:: Logging in to the NWE X windows system.
• The desktop:: Using the NWE X windows desktop.
• The mouse:: Mouse conventions and terminology.
• The NWE task bar:: The NWE task bar.
• The NWE Menu:: Accessing applications with the NWE menu.
• Sub menus:: NWE menu sub-menus.
• Windows:: The parts of an X window.
• Pasting text:: Pasting text between applications.
• Logging out:: Log out when you're done working. Here's how.
• Fix your desktop:: What if you get a different desktop?
• FAQ:: Frequently Asked Questions about xwindows.

We use Sun Solaris for our application, file, and web servers. For more technical information about the NWE system, visit our system pages.