To start the NetWare GUI, at the Server Console enter
startx
When the Novell button appears on the taskbar menu in the lower left-hand corner, the process is complete.
The following are three ways to shut down the NetWare GUI:
For instructions on activating the taskbar menu, see Activating the Taskbar Menu .
The GUI Server Console utility is now C-based and does not require Java to be loaded. Multiple instances of the Server Console utility can be loaded. This lets you view multiple server screens simultaneously in the GUI. For example, you can view the Logger screen, Edit screen, and the Console screen from three different windows.
To view multiple instances of the GUI, click the Server Console icon on the taskbar menu, or click Novell > Utilities > Server Console.
NOTE: Some screens have limited functionality and updates only when they are the active screen. You need to view these screens from within a server console that follows the active screen.
The first instance you launch follows the active screen. This means that it will immediately reflect changes made on the active screen. For all other instances, following the active screen is not the default setting; you need to manually select this option by selecting click View > Follow Active Screen.
All instances following the active screen have an asterisk in front of the screen name.
To activate the taskbar menu in NetWare GUI, click the Novell button in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.
The taskbar menu consists of items that are either menus or commands. Menus contain the following:
If you enter an international name, it appears in the taskbar menu; otherwise, the default name appears.
Internationalized names are stored in files with the .properties extension.
A Properties file is a text file that contains key=value entries. For example, PROGRAMS=programs or UTILITIES=utilities. You must place these files in the sys:\java\lib\taskbar directory. The properties file also lets you specify characters that you are not able to enter from the server's keyboard. You do this by specifying the Unicode values on the right side of the equal sign (=). For example, you can specify the value RUN with any of the following values:
When you specify the Properties file, you specify the default properties file such as NWMenu.properties. Names are retrieved from that file according to the language and locale of the server. For example, if the NWMenu.properties file is used, the server is set to use German, and there is a NWMenu_de.properties file, then the NWMenu_de.properties file is searched first for the entry. If the entry is not found in this file, then the NWMenu.properties file is searched. If the entry is not found in either file, then the default name is used.
If you want to use a properties file for your names, you can use a default name such as MyNames.properties. If you are providing the product for an internationalized audience, you might want to ship properties files for each of the locales supported by the server.
IMPORTANT: Do not add your own name entries in the NWMenu.properties file. This file is overwritten when you install a newer version of NJVM.
Commands contain the following:
IMPORTANT: We recommend that you specify an .ncf file that contains actual commands to execute.
You configure the taskbar menu by using the Menu Editor. To access this tool, on the taskbar menu, click Settings > 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 field.
Click File > Save on the taskbar menu.
Click the menu item you want to change.
Modify the command information in the Edit panel.
Click File > Save on the taskbar menu.
Right-click the menu item.
Click Remove.
Click File > Save on the taskbar menu.
Right-click the menu item.
Click either Move Up or Move down.
Click File > Save on the taskbar menu.
If a menu is open, the selected menu item moves into that menu; otherwise; the menu item moves past the menu.
You use the GUI environment utility to configure VESA Super VGA and Accelerated-X Servers on NetWare. This utililty lets you select the video board, keyboard, mouse, and monitor from a set of predefined hardware devices supported by the GUI environment utility.
Activate the taskbar menu.
Click Settings > GUI Environment.
See the GUI environment online help for further documentation on using this utility.
To achieve the best video quality when you configure your accelerated video driver, configure the monitor and select a refresh rate as high as possible.
From the taskbar menu, 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 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 > Yes > Yes.
Activate the taskbar menu.
For instructions on activating the taskbar menu, see Activating the Taskbar Menu .
Click Tools > Backgrounds.
All files in the sys:\java\nwgfx\pixmaps directory display. The supported graphics formats are xpm, jpeg, and bmp. If you have background patterns (in the supported formats) that you want to use, place them in the sys:\java\nwgfx\pix\maps directory.
Select the desired background pattern and test it by clicking Test.
Click OK.
If you start NetWare GUI without a mouse driver attached to a PS/2, or USB, the GUI will start in mouseless mode. When the Mouse Device query screen appears, select No Mouse.
When the NetWare GUI system is executing 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.