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#! rnews 1756 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Solved X Problems Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:24:35 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31D03CF2.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <31CE1956.2781E494@eramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Syntax <syntax@eramp.net> Syntax wrote: Windows going. Once > he explained that xdm is the X server and that the others are window managers the whole > thing fell into place in 5 minutes. Uhhhh. I'd say they fell into the wrong place. :-) xdm is not an X server, it's a session manager which enabled you to launch an X server locally or simply talk to an X server remotely (like in an X terminal) and give you a "session login" on it. fvwm, twm and so on are window managers, are about as specialized as xdm in the greater X scheme of things and not considered "generic clients" in the same way that xclock or xterm are. You need at most one window manager, one session manager and n clients. > Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit, edit the the line that says twm & to fvwm & and comment You should simply stick this in your $HOME/.xinitrc file and it will be customized for your individual startup of X. There's no need to edit the master xinit. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project