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System User's Guide: Operating System and Devices


Chapter 10. Customizing the User Environment

The operating system provides various commands and initialization files that enable you to customize the behavior and the appearance of your user environment to your preferences.

Some of the default resources of the applications you use on your system can also be customized. Defaults are initiated by the program at startup. When you change the defaults, you must exit and then restart the program to see the new defaults in effect.

Common Desktop Environment 1.0: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide provides detailed information about customizing the behavior and appearance of the Common Desktop Environment.

This section discusses:


Related Information

Chapter 2, User Environment and System Information

Commands Overview

Processes Overview

File Systems

Directory Overview

Chapter 6, Files

Chapter 9, File and System Security

System Startup Files Overview

Customization Procedures

Customizing the InfoExplorer ASCII Program

Chapter 11, Shells

Korn Shell or POSIX Shell Commands

Bourne Shell

C Shell


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