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From: bruce@servio.UUCP (Bruce Schuchardt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DEC window manager stinks
Message-ID: <263@servio.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 15:10:38 GMT
References: <16229@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: bruce@servio.UUCP (Bruce Schuchardt)
Organization: Servio Logic Development Corp.; Beaverton, OR
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In article <16229@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> alk@donald.cs.umn.edu (Anthony L. Kimball) writes:
>... Does anyone
>know any way in which I can startup with, say, twm (my favorite), instead of
>dxwm on my DECstation 3100 (Ultrix, natch`).
>...

You can put a line in your .Xdefaults to have any window manager you want
started up instead of the default dxwm.  E.g.,

    sm.windowManagerName:       /usr/bin/uwm




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