🚀 go-pugleaf

On 10 Feb 2000 23:04:20 GMT, Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:
>"Bruce Buskill" <bbuskill@runet.edu> writes:
>>I was interested in seeing how I can use the Sun X server
>>for my display, but use another window manager such as
>>fvwm2. I have disabled the dtlogin (cde) stuff from /etc/rc2.d/
>>and when I try to run X its starts OpenWindows and hangs.
>>I am not familiar enough with Sun's way of doing things yet
>>to figure my error. All advice is greatly appreciated.
>
>You don't have to use CDE/dtlogin and all that dubious non-standard
>software. Just stick with using straight X-windows. Solaris 2.6 and up has
>Openwindows based on X11R6, and Solaris 8 has Openwindows based on X11R6.4,
>so there's even less reason to use CDE instead of real X.
>
Maybe this has already been covered.  If so, I apologize.

Here are (or were) links to two methods of adding additional
window managers to the dtlogin screen.

The first is:

http://www.tiem.utk.edu/~peek/solaris/

written by Michael Peek, and the second is:

http://twirl.mcc.ac.uk/~zzassgl/wm.html

written by Geoff Lane.

Another site for information is:

http://www.fvwm.org/FAQ.html

-- 
Frank Hahn

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