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From: 31005_1650@uwovax.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell 1-519-661-3714)
Subject: using mwm and others with Xfree86 and 386bsd
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:31:55 GMT
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Has anyone been using any other window manager other than twm?

I have been using the Motif window manager and I like it better than twm.

I have heard of gwm, olvwm plus a few others, but have not tried them
with Xfree86.

PS:  The way I use mwm with 386bsd is this.....

edit /usr/X386/lib/xinit/xinitrc

comment out the line that states twm &
use xhost to allow other access  xhost +   ( I think or was it xhost - )

rsm userid otherhost /usr/bin/X11/mwm -display myip:0 &


This actually tells otherhost to run its window manager pointing back to my 
box.  It actually works great!

I have also tried HPvue window manager this way, and it works ok also.


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