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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC window manager stinks
Message-ID: <1900@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 6 Oct 89 02:20:58 GMT
References: <16229@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <16229@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> alk@donald.cs.umn.edu (Anthony L. Kimball) writes:
>I despise dxwm utterly.  The straight-jacket minds at DEC seem to have
>precluded me from using another window manager by default.  Does anyone
>know any way in which I can startup with, say, twm (my favorite), instead of
>dxwm on my DECstation 3100 (Ultrix, natch`).

Try "man dxsession" for starters.  You might find its description of the
windowManagerName resource interesting.

>Quick, someone at DEC, tell me how (I read the no-bloody-help documentation)
>before I start broadcasting the rest of my gripes about the Pmax.

Gripe all you want.  Being a little bit more polite about it wouldn't hurt.

	-paul asente
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