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- From: jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM (John Cooper)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Selecting olwm/olvwm from the command line.
- Followup-To: comp.windows.open-look
- Date: 11 Jan 93 12:03:45
- Organization: SunSoft, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- In-reply-to: dhiltz@whsun1.whoi.edu's message of Sat, 9 Jan 93 03:02:54 GMT
-
- >> David Hiltz writes:
-
- David> How can I indicate which window manager I want to use
- David> (olwm/olvwm) from the command line? I didn't see anything in
- David> the openwin script file. Can I do it through an environment
- David> variable? If so, what is it called and what is the syntax
- David> for it? I'm running OpenWindows on a Sun/SS2 4.1.3.
-
- By default, olwm is started by the OpenWindows startup script
- $OPENWINHOME/lib/Xinitrc
-
- This file is *only* run if you don't have your own ~/.xinitrc OR you
- haven't specified an alternate file using the XINITRC environment
- variable.
-
- To fix your problem, you can copy this file into your own ~/.xinitrc and
- modify it to run olwm/olvwm/twm or whatever. It's a shell script so use
- you imagination ;-)
-
- For example, here's an excerpt from my .xinitrc:
-
- #
- # Window Manager.
- #
- if [ "$OPENWINHOME" = "" ]
- then
- twm&
- else
- olvwm&
- # /home/intrinsics/nayeem/motif/usr/bin/X11/mwm&
- fi
-
- --
- --- John
-