DM Aegis DM
NAME
dm - Display Manager Information
DESCRIPTION
The Display Manager (DM) provides you with a set of functions that
control the display attached to your node. This includes such operations
as creating and closing windows and pads, growing and moving windows,
changing the window and display background colors, etc. In addition, DM
commands allow you to control processes running on the node. For
example, you can start and stop processes running the shell, create
background processes running peripheral device control programs such as
the Print Server, and so forth.
Help on individual DM commands is available by typing
$ help command_name
(just as for shell commands). In a few cases, however, there are
commands in the shell and the DM with the same name. These are cc, ed,
and tb. help assumes you mean the shell command unless you specify
otherwise. So if you want the DM command description, add "_dm" to the
command name. For instance
$ help ed describes the shell line-mode editor
whereas
$ help ed_dm describes the DM command that deletes the character
preceding the current cursor position
More information is available.
TO GET: TYPE:
. A complete list of DM commands help dm commands
sorted by function
. A list of default DM key names help dm keys
and definitions
. A description of text editing ranges help dm range
. A alphabetical list of both DM and help commands
shell commands
. A list of DM "pad" calls which may help syscalls pad
be made from a program
. General information on windows help windows
. General information on character fonts help fonts