[2725] in Release_Engineering
dash text for release notes...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 31 14:57:08 1991
From: vanharen@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 91 14:57:15 EDT
To: rel-eng@MIT.EDU
Cc: kcunning@MIT.EDU
Below is the text for the release notes. Please let me know if you
think that there is anything else that the users might want to know
about. I don't think that there have been too many "gotchas" discovered
so far during testing...
-C.
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Dash is now run by default, placing a menubar at the top of the screen.
Several windows have been moved, in order to make room for the menubar;
the initial xterm, olh windows, and the console are now 30 pixels down.
The menubar uses only 23 pixels, but 30 was used just to leave a little
room and to allow for the user to potentially choose a larger font for
the menubar.
Users that wish to turn dash off should add the line "set skip_dash"
to their ~/.environment files.
Dash's newest feature is that it will check the user's kerberos ticket
granting ticket every fifteen minutes to make sure that it is still
okay, and places a warning box on the screen when the time runs low.
This option can be disabled by adding "Dash.checkTickets: false" to
your .Xresources or .dashrc file.
Zephyrgrams will continue to be placed in the upper-left-hand corner,
partially obscuring the dash menubar. The dash menubar will auto-raise
by default when the mouse enters it. The user can disable this feature
by adding "Dash*menubar.autoRaise: false" to his .Xresources or .dashrc
file. When autoRaise is false, the user must click the mouse in the
menubar to cause it to raise. In either mode, however, the user can
lower the menubar to the bottom of the window stack by selecting the
"Lower menu bar" option under the "Dash" menu (the leftmost menu in the
menubar).
