Re: make mwm default

[Donovan Rebbechi <elflord pegasus rutgers edu>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Anoop wrote:

> 
> Hi there, I have RH Motif 2.0.1, I would like to make the mwm my default 
> window manager. How would I do it. Any comment/suggestions appreciated.
> thanks,
> Anoop
> 
> 

It's pretty easy to do on your own account, you just need to change your
config file, which will be called .Xclients, .xsession or .xinitrc.

The default file has a lot of conditionals (it checks for fvwm 95, fvwm2,
then
fvwm, then twm and executes whatever's there in that order of priority ),
but all you really need is a line which says 'exec mwm' (you can just get
rid of all the conditionals and run the window manager that you _really_
are using. The point of the scripts (ie the hierarchy of conditionals) is
so that  you will not break X by removing a window manager (in the event
of failure  to edit the appropriate files).

I have these three files soft-linked (saves considerable confusion)

To do
the same thing system wide is a little trickier if the users already have
these files (you'd have to overwrite their files or ask them to get the
new config file... ughhh...) RedHat seems to dreate the users config files
by default when you use the GUI stuff to make an account.

-- Donovan