Examples of My Idea on OpenSolaris Articles

I'd like to show not only skilled hackers but also beginners could have a lot of fun in OpenSolais. This page shows examples of ideas I propose in OpenSolaris general content Discussion Therefore, it might not be organizeda as a total document. I would make it in order later step by step....

Preparing user's desktop for various tasks

Suppose you have just logged in to SJDS as a non-root user "fuguta". Let's see your desktop now. There are some icons for desktop operations.

You may need more icons for important directories, or more convenient way to launch important applications. For example:

Home directory
Terminal
Text Editor

Let's see how to get them.

(1)Creating home directory's icon on your desktop

Right-click anywhere on your desktop to expand pop-up menu.
Select "Create Launcher". A window titled "Create Launcher" will appear.
Input "Home" for Name. Input "nautilus -f /export/home/fuguta" for Command.
For Icon, click the button labeled "No Icon". A window titled "Browse Icons" will appear. Select your favorite icon from the list, for example "gnome-home.png".

Click "OK" of "Create Launcher" window to complete.

(2)Adding home directory's icon on Panel

Just drag and drop the icon created as (1) down to somewhere in the Panel.

You have only to click it once to launch File Browser.

(3)Opening Terminal from File Browser

Terminal window can be launched by right-clicking the desktop and select "Open Terminal" from the pop-up menu.In this window, the current directory is your home and you may have to change directory with cd command. By the following way you may open Terminal anywhere located in File Browser.

Open File Browser, for example, double-clicking "Documents" icon in the desktop.
Click "View" from the menu and check "Side Pane". A Side Pane will appear.
Click a little triangle beside "Tree" in the Side Pane. Select "Information".
Now in the Side Pane there are a folder's icon, the title "Documents", its information and a button labeled "Open with...".Click the button.
A window titled "Open with Other Applicaton" appeares. In the list, you will see a row with values "Terminal" for Name and "not in menu" for Status. In the middle section of the window, you will see a block with a label of "Terminal", a description of "is not in the menu for "Folder" items" and the button "Modify..." Click the button "Modify..."
A window titled "Modify Terminal" will appear. Click the radio "Include in the menu for "Folder" items". Click "OK" to complete.
Back to "Open with Other Application" window. In the list, the status has been changed to "in menu for "Folder"". Click "OK" to complete.
Reload or reopen "Documents" folder in File Browser. Now you will see another button at the Side Pane labeled "Open with Terminal". Click it. A Terminal window will appear.
In the Terminal window, command "pwd" to ask where you are. The answer is "/export/home/fuguta/Documents".
Now you may open terminal from the any location you browse in the File Browser.

(4)Creating Text Editor's icon on Panel