Overview

Digital UNIX Version 4.0 supports a full-featured implementation of the X Consortium's X Window System, Version 11, Release 6 (X11R6) up to and including public patch 12, as well as the complete Motif Toolkit from CDE/Motif Version 1.0. Aside from Digital extensions to the X server to add graphics support, and the addition of several Motif-based Digital X clients, the windowing code is essentially passed through untouched from the X and CDE consortiums.

The Digital UNIX Version 4.0 implementation of X11R6 and Motif makes use of both static and shared libraries, allowing client programs that link shared to make use of the latest library code without recompiling, as well as saving memory and disk space.

For more information on shared libraries, see The following sections briefly discuss the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), which is the default graphical user-interface now supported in Digital UNIX, and the X11R6 and Motif components of the Digital UNIX Version 4.0 windowing environment.