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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: DEC window manager stinks
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Date: 6 Oct 89 02:03:13 GMT
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put:

sm.windowManagerName: start-twm
sm.terminalEmulatorName: xterm

in your ~/.Xdefaults. I use a CSH script called start-twm because this
insures that twm will have a complete environment. i.e., if I don't do
this, twm (and children born by menu actions) don't know about e.g.,
PRINTER, TEXFONTS, etc etc. Kind of annoying.

I'm generally investigating the means to use xdm/xdcons instead. The
only advantage of dxsession is that it captures console output, and
xdcons is supposed to do this as well.