X11 Windowing Features

The Solaris software includes the following X11 windowing enhancements from prior Solaris 9 releases.

• Xscreensaver Program

• X Event Interception Extension (XEvIE)

• FreeType 2.1.x

• Xserver Virtual Screen Enhancement

• Xrender Extension

Xscreensaver Program

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 8/03 release.

The Xscreensaver program locks your monitor screen after a period of inactivity in order to prevent others from gaining access to your system session. Xscreensaver supports a variety of animation displays that can be used while the screen is locked. This program is used in the GNOME 2.0 desktop.

X Event Interception Extension (XEvIE)

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 4/03 release.

XEvIE is a low-level interface that intercepts all the keyboard and mouse events so that these events can be read, consumed, or modified as needed. This X extension enables better integration of assistive technologies, including those technologies in the GNOME 2.0 desktop.

FreeType 2.1.x

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 4/03 release.

FreeType 2.1.x is an open source library that provides a simple application programming interface (API). This API can access font content in a uniform way, independently of the file format. Additionally, some format-specific APIs can be used to access special data in the font file.

Xserver Virtual Screen Enhancement

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 12/02 release.

The Xserver Virtual Screen enhancement provides accessibility support for the GNOME 2.0 desktop for the Solaris software. This capability enables support of magnification software on systems that have just one frame buffer.

Xrender Extension

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 12/02 release.

The new Xrender feature increases performance for applications, such as the StarOffice software suite, that run on the Solaris software. The Xrender feature provides a modern appearance for these applications. Xrender uses hardware processing for alpha-blending and transparency effects.

Freeware Enhancements

The Solaris release includes the following freeware enhancements from prior Solaris 9 releases.

• Ghostscript 7.05

• New Freeware Packages: libxml2 2.4.16 and libxslt 1.0.19

• ANT 1.4.1 Freeware Package

Note - To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for these freeware packages, see the license path included in each of the following descriptions. If the Solaris software has been installed anywhere other than the default, modify the path to access the file at the installed location.

For a list of freeware in the Solaris 9 release, see Freeware Enhancements.

Ghostscript 7.05

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 8/03 release.

The Ghostscript 7.05 freeware package is included in the Solaris release. Ghostscript 7.05 reads PostScript and PDF files, and displays these files on screen or converts the files to a form that is usable by many printers. See the gs(1) man page under /usr/sfw/share/man.

Note - To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for Ghostscript, the license path is /usr/sfw/share/src/<freeware name>.

New Freeware Packages: libxml2 2.4.16 and libxslt 1.0.19

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 4/03 release.

The following new freeware packages are new or revised in the Solaris 9 4/03 release:

• libxml2 2.4.16 - A standard for building tag-based structured documents or data

• libxslt 1.0.19 - An XML language to define transformation for XML

Note - To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for these packages, the license path is /usr/share/src/<freeware name></filename>.

ANT 1.4.1 Freeware Package

This feature is new in the Solaris 9 12/02 release.

The following new freeware package is included in the Solaris release: ANT 1.4.1 - This is a Jakarta ANT Java and XML-based build package.

Note - To view license terms, attribution, and copyright statements for ANT, the license path is /usr/sfw/share/src/<freeware name>.