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Matt Jenkins (mdj@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
: Grahame M. Kelly (gmkelly@zip.com.au) wrote:
: : Hi,
: : 
: : I have just purchased Motif 2.0 CD. Redhat Distribution.
: : Installation was OK. However I am unable to get the mwm to operate.
: : 

: Hi,
: 	I'd say that the problem would be that you can't use two
: window managers at once - RedHat (and virtually everything else) uses
: fvwm by default. The Solution is to either edit xinitrc (in
: /etc/X11/xinitrc) to use mwm instead of fvwm - or edit your fvwmrc
: file to include another wm. you'll notice in X that if you pick exit
: window manager (Exit Fvwm actually) that you can start other window
: managers (olwm, twm etc.).

: the file xinitrc can be copied to your home directory as .xinitrc,
: then you can edit your own local copy.

	There is absolutely no problem with multiple window managers, and no
need to edit xinitrc. Under RedHat, I beleive the window manager is started
(along with some other apps that commence at startup) in the .Xclients file
in your home directory. The default one starts fvwm if present, or twm
otherwise. This file is already sourced by the xinitrc or one of the other
scripts run when starting X. Get rid of the bit starting fwvm/twm, and add
	"exec mwm"
at the end.

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