Solaris/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
Solaris/IRAF Site Manager's Guide
The graphics and image display tools provided with IRAF operate within the
OpenWindows windowing environment much like the standard tools provided with
OpenWindows. To help illustrate the use of these tools, Solaris/IRAF is
distributed with a sample OpenWindows environment already configured for the
IRAF account. This consists of the following files in the IRAF account
login directory, iraf$local.
.Xdefaults
- Sets up the defaults for how the window system looks, e.g., defines
the X resources controlling window colors, fonts, etc.
.openwin-menu
- An example of a simple custom rootmenu for the OpenLook window manager,
including entries for xgterm and ximtool. Other window managers will rely
on a different configuration file.
.xinitrc
- Executed at window system start up time to create all the windows (note
the funny business at the end to avoid the infamous "white screen" problem
sometimes seen when exiting OpenWindows).
No one screen layout will suit all users or all applications.
Everyone will wish to customize the workstation screen to suit their
preferences and the type of work they are doing. However, the configuration
provided works and should be useful as an example of how to make things
function correctly.