This section contains the following NetWare® GUI procedures:
To start the NetWare GUI, enter startx at the system console.
When the Novell button appears on the taskbar menu in the lower left corner, the startup process is complete.
The NetWare GUI lets you view multiple server screens simultaneously. For example, you can view the Logger screen, Edit screen, and the Console screen from three different windows.
To view multiple server screens, you use the NetWare GUI's Server Console utility. This utility is C-based and does not require Java to be loaded. You can load multiple instances of the Server Console utility.
To start the Server Console utility, click the Server Console icon on the taskbar menu, or click Novell, click Utilities, then click Server Console.
NOTE: Some screens have limited functionality and update only when they are the active screen. You need to view these screens from within a system console that follows the active screen.
The first instance of the Server Console utility you launch follows the active screen. This means that it immediately reflects changes made on the active screen. For all other instances, following the active screen is not the default setting; you can manually select this option by clicking View, then clicking Follow Active Screen.
All instances following the active screen have an asterisk in front of the screen name.
You can use one of three methods to activate the taskbar menu:
The taskbar menu consists of the following items:
Menus contain other menus and commands. When you open a menu, it displays other menus and command options.
When you create menus, you can select either a default name or an international name (optional). If you specify an international name, it displays in the taskbar menu; otherwise, the default name displays. International names are stored in files with the .properties extension. The following explains the name options:
This section contains the following procedures:
Click Novell in the NetWare GUI, select Settings, then select Menu Editor.
Right-click the location where you want to install the menu item.
Click either New Command or New Menu.
Type the information in the Edit panel.
On the taskbar menu, click File, then click Save.
Click Novell in the NetWare GUI, select Settings, then select Menu Editor.
Click the menu you want to change.
Modify the command information in the Edit panel.
On the taskbar menu, click File, then click Save.
Click Novell in the NetWare GUI, select Settings, then select Menu Editor.
Right-click the menu you want to move.
Click either Move Up or Move Down.
On the taskbar menu, click File, then click Save.
If a target menu is open, the selected menu moves into that menu; otherwise, the selected menu moves past the target menu.
Click Novell in the NetWare GUI, select Settings, then select Menu Editor.
Right-click the menu you want to remove.
Select Remove.
On the taskbar menu, click File, then click Save.
Commands are items in a menu that launch applications. When you add commands, you can select default name, international name, and execute. The following explains each option:
IMPORTANT: We recommend that you specify a .ncf file that contains actual commands to execute.
You use the NetWare GUI environment utility to configure VESA Super VGA and Accelerated-X Servers on NetWare. This utility lets you select the video board, keyboard, mouse, and monitor from a set of predefined hardware devices supported by the NetWare GUI environment utility.
To configure X server, click Novell in the NetWare GUI, select Settings, then select GUI Environment.
For documentation on using the NetWare GUI Environment, click the Help button to open the online help.
To achieve the best video quality when you configure your accelerated video driver, configure the monitor and select the highest refresh rate possible.
NOTE: When selecting a video driver, we recommend using the standard Xvesa driver.
To configure your system for an accelerated video driver:
In the NetWare GUI, click Novell, select Settings, then select GUI Environment.
Select your video board from the Video Board List.
This activates the Monitor tab. The default settings are Super VGA with 1024 x 768 resolution and the Monitor tab deactivated.
Select your monitor from the list of monitors.
This enables all possible refresh rates for the selected monitor.
Select the highest available refresh rate, then set the video board to the desired resolution.
Select Test, then click OK.
After the test pattern displays, click OK, click Yes, then click Yes again.
To select a background pattern:
In the NetWare GUI, click Novell, select Tools, then select Backgrounds.
All files in the sys:\java\nwgfx\pixmaps directory display. The supported graphics formats are XPM, JPEG, GIF, and BMP. If you have background patterns (in the supported formats) that you want to use, place them in the sys:\java\nwgfx\pixmaps directory.
Select the desired background pattern, then click Test.
Click OK.
If you start the NetWare GUI without a mouse attached to a PS/2 or USB port, the NetWare GUI will start in mouseless mode.
When the NetWare GUI is operating in mouseless mode, use the keypad keys for mouse movement and button clicks.
IMPORTANT: NUMLOCK must be activated to enable keypad mouse movements.
The following table shows the keystroke actions for Java text areas and text fields as implemented for NJVM:
Table 4 Shortcut Keystrokes
There are three ways to shut down the NetWare GUI: