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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:52:03 -0500
From:      Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fvwm Manager
Message-ID:  <19980822215203.A6506@connect.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980822210550.A20323@astro.psu.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 09:05:50PM -0400
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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 09:05:50PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:15:57PM +0000, Frank Pawlak wrote:
> 
> > You will also have to edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to start the window
> > manager of choice.
> 
> Unless he has a very good reason for making that the default for all
> of the users on the system, he should copy that file to ~/.xinitrc
> and make changes there.
> 
> Granted, lots of new FreeBSD users don't have a "user population"
> to support, but it is good to teach good habits from the beginning!
> Likewise, people should learn to change their window manager without
> being root.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Inertia is a property of matter.
> http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349.

I stand justly corrected.

Frank 
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