New Features

The following information tells you what is new in this release of the OpenWindows X server.

Visual Window Overlays

An overlay is a pixel buffer (either physical or software-simulated) into which graphics can be drawn. You can use overlays to display temporary imagery in a display window. See Chapter 7, "Visual Overlay Windows" for a description of the visual overlay API.

AccessX

This release of the OpenWindows server supports features compliant with the American Disabilities Act (ADA). This feature is available through an extension to the server, called AccessX.

Use the client program accessx to enable and disable the following capabilites provided by the AccessX extension: sticky keys, slow keys, toggle keys, mouse keys, bounce keys and repeat keys. Of these, the sticky, slow and mouse keys can be enabled using shift or other keys. The accessx client controls the toggle, bounce, and repeat keys and their settings.

Before running accessx, set the UIDPATH environment variable to /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/accessx.uid.

The accessx client is part of the SUNWxwacx package. This package is not installed automatically, unless you install the All Cluster.

pfb Fonts

The Openwindows server now supports Type 1 binary .pfb fonts.

Adobe NX Agent Support

The DPS client library libdps has been enhanced so that a client will automatically connect to a DPS NX agent running on your network, if it is unable to connect to the DPS extension. Your DPSX client need not be modified to take advantage of this support. The NX agent is available through Adobe.

Performance Enhancements

If you NFS mount your window server, mount it setuid allowable. This enables the X server to take advantage of performance features in the Solaris operating system.