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- From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
- Subject: Re: help - DEC.5000 / twm / .X11Startup
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:32:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.100340.4652@fys.ruu.nl> hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft) writes:
- >
- >Is there any way to avoid starting the session manager at all? I
- >recently installed the Motif package on our cluster, and on 16Mb
- >stations the combination of xconsole and xsession is a real memory
- >problem. By using vtwm instead of mwm, xclock instead of dxclock, and
- >xcalc instead of dxcalc, and by killing the xconsole at startup the
- >system is workable, but I would really like to get rid of the session
- >manager too (It eats about 1600kB).
-
- You can always set the :0 entry in /etc/ttys to "off", turn the getty
- for the console on, and have your users login and run "xinit" from the console
- in glass mode (too bad the console is a line terminal only ... way to go DEC).
- Or, you could run xdm instead of that bizarre DECWindows login prompter.
-
- --Ken
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