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- From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Selecting olwm/olvwm from the command line.
- Message-ID: <431@ftms.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 20:47:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan9.030254.2183@netnews.whoi.edu>
- Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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- In article <1993Jan9.030254.2183@netnews.whoi.edu> dhiltz@whsun1.whoi.edu (David Hiltz) writes:
- <
- < How can I indicate which window manager I want to use (olwm/olvwm) from the
- < command line? I didn't see anything in the openwin script file. Can I do
- < it through an environment variable? If so, what is it called and what is
- < the syntax for it? I'm running OpenWindows on a Sun/SS2 4.1.3.
- <
- < For now I renamed olwm to something else inside of /usr/openwin/bin and
- < copied the olvwm to olwm in /usr/openwin/bin.
- <
- < Also, this is a FAQ I'm sure, but how to apply the patch for olvwm to bring
- < it up to version 3.3 from version 3.0?
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- The startup of the window manager is done in the .xinitrc file. You can do what
- you want in there on how you want it to determine which manager is started.
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