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- From: ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward)
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- Subject: Re: help - DEC.5000 / twm / .X11Startup
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 04:35:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.100638.8758@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- Organization: The Bill and Ted Society of Computer Science
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- nagrwb@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- |On logging in to a DECStation5000/200 I have sitting at my desk at
- |the moment I would like to automatically:
- | kill the DecWindow Manager
- | use twm
- | set a few friendly X clients
- | start-up epoch (which resides on another host) in an iconified state
- | have the DEC Session Manager and DECterm console window iconified
-
- hahaha. Here's how i got around it:
-
- 1. I set my window manager for sm to /bin/true.
- 2. I got rid of the initial DECterm.
- 3. I put everything in my .X11Startup file, almost like a .Xsession
- file, including the window manager.
- 4. I put StartIconified { "sm" } in my .twmrc. This will cause some problems
- when you have windows that have names starting with "sm" in some cases.
-
- Anyway, here are the relevant X resources (in my .Xdefaults file. ugh)
-
- *terminalEmulatorName: /bin/true
- sm.windowManagerName: /bin/true
-
- also
-
- sm.display_pattern: none
-
- but i'm not sure if that is the right way to do that or not.
-
- and my .X11Startup looks like this:
-
- xset fp+ (our X11R5 fonts - it's big)
- xset fp rehash
- xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap-dec
- vtwm &
- xv -quit -root -rmode 5 $HOME/iff/bill+ted.gif &
-
- which I admit, is kind of hokey. you could possibly end with
-
- twm
- kill `some ugly thing to get the sm pid`
-
- to quit with twm.
-