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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to use twm with DECWindows on a DECstation 3100?
Message-ID: <1283@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 01:18:45 GMT
References: <9001182244.AA27173@dart.cs.byu.edu>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <9001182244.AA27173@dart.cs.byu.edu> mike@DART.CS.BYU.EDU (Mike Burbidge) writes:
>Has anyone been able to figure out how to use another window manager with
>DECwindows on DECstation 3100? Seems like I remember reading about it in the
>list sometime before I got a DECstation.

in your .Xdefaults file add:

sm.windowManagerName:   /usr/bin/X11/twm
(or whatever the pathname is...)

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