[SPARCbook] Changing Window Managers?

[Michael Lorenz]

Greetings !

> > OK, the more simple method is to place your wm in $WINDOWMANAGER in your
> > .profile. But I think you still have to trash dtlogin.

Sorry, my fault... not $WINDOMANAGER but $OW_WINDOW_MANAGER

> You don't have to 'trash' anything. just run dtconfig -d to disable the
> dtlogin from coming up when you boot your box. You will just get a
> console prompt, and you can then set up your .xinitrc file to start up
> whatever wm you choose.
> You can re-enable dtlogin using dtconfig -e later on, if you change your
> mind.
>
> *OR*
>
> You can go to this page ---> http://twirl.mcc.ac.uk/~zzassgl/wm.html
> <--- and follow the instructions to set up another window manager entry
> onto the session menu. In this page they illustrate how to set up fvwm2
> under CDE, but you can modify the process to suit your wm of choice.

The original mail sounded as if the sender didn't much care for CDE, the first
thing I did was indeed trashing CDE for disk space.
I never really liked things like xdm or dtlogin, they are good for Xterminals
but nothing else.

bye
Michael