Visual User Environment

Visual User Environment (VUE or HP VUE) is a discontinued desktop environment developed by Hewlett-Packard, intended for use on Unix workstations. VUE is based on the Motif widget toolkit and targets the X Window System.

VUE is a precursor to Common Desktop Environment (CDE), which was also based on Motif.

Work began on VUE in 1988 at Apollo Computer for use with Domain/OS, as an alternative to Apollo's standard DM and wmgr.

Shortly later, HP acquired Apollo, where they released the first version of VUE for Domain/OS, and then went on to modify VUE for use with HP-UX.

• VUE 1.0 – Released with Domain/OS SR10.4
• VUE 1.1
• VUE 2.0 – Released for HP-UX
• VUE 2.0.1
• VUE 3.0 – Released with HP-UX 9.0 in 1992

According to an article published in the Hewlett-Packard Journal, the look and feel of HP-VUE was used when developing the Common Desktop Environment (CDE):

After its release, HP endorsed CDE as the new standard desktop for Unix, and provided documentation and software for migrating VUE customizations to CDE.

• Motif Window Manager
• Common Desktop Environment

• Mark A. Champine (February 1991). "A Visual User Interface for the HP-UX and Domain Operating Systems" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
• Charles V. Fernandez (April 1994). "A Graphical User Interface for a Multimedia Environment" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Journal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
• Introduction to HP VUE
• HP Vue and CDE: Differences Between the Interfaces (Purdue University)