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Title:DECWINDOWS
Notice:DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 SSB kits: note 5519
Moderator:GRIM::MESSENGER
Created:Wed Nov 28 1990
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5861
Total number of notes:24081

5852.0. "CDE - Front Panel Icon Removal" by COMICS::FINNEYJ () Wed May 21 1997 08:47

    Dear All,
    
    I have a customer who is trying to remove the original Icon's from the
    Front Control Panel. I can see how to remove/add additional sub-panel 
    items but cannot see how to remove the default Icon's (eg, Clock, 
    Calendar, File Cabinet, Decterm, DecMail, Print, Desktop Style, 
    Application Manager, Help and Waste Basket). 
    
    Any clues, ideas would be greatly appreciated.
    
    Can it be done ? 
    
    Regards,
    
    John Finney
    OpenVMS Digital CSC, Basingstoke.
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5852.1GRIM::MESSENGERBob MessengerThu May 22 1997 16:5635
See chapter 13 in the Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and
System Administator's Guide.  This is provided in .html format on the
DECwindows Motif layered product CD (but not on the Software Products
Library CD) and is available on the web at
http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms.doc-sets/cde/.

You can customize the front panel for an individual user by creating a
file in their [.dt.types] subdirectory with a file type of .fp.  If one of
your .fp files defines a control with the same name, container name and
container type as a system-defined control, your control will supersede
the system control.  The default system controls are in the file
cde$system_defaults:[appconfig.types.c]dtwm.fp (assuming you're using
English; for Japanese it they are in
cde$system_defaults:[appconfig.types.ja_jp]).

For example, to remove the Clock icon from the front panel, create the
following file as [.dt.types]noclock.fp (or any other name ending in .fp):

CONTROL Clock
{
  TYPE			blank
  CONTAINER_NAME	Top
  CONTAINER_TYPE	BOX
}

Then end your session, log back in, and the Clock icon will be gone.

You can apply this customization to every user on the cluster by copying
noclock.fp to cde$user_common:[appconfig.types.c], or apply it to every
user on a specific node of the cluster by copying it to
cde$user_specific:[appconfig.types.c].  These directories don't exist by
default so you'll need to create them with word read access.

				-- Bob

5852.2"Thankyou"COMICS::FINNEYJFri May 23 1997 10:478
    Bob,
    
    Many thanks for you assistance...
    
    Regards,
    
    John