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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC window manager stinks
Summary: It really does
Message-ID: <319@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 14:11:57 GMT
References: <16229@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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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`).
>
>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.
>
I am not payed by DEC, but anyways:
in the .Xdefaults file on machine running Ultrix I'v seen the line:

sm*windowManagerName : /usr/bin/mwm
sm*terminalEmulatorName: /usr/bin/xterm

(mwm stands for Motif Window Manager, sm for DEC's session manager) 
- is this what you are looking for ???

[By the way, to find undocumented resource names for DECW$ utilities
 (on a VAX in particular), the DUMP utility is a real help, sometimes
 you can find real treasures]. 

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