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Date:      Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:05:50 -0400
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
To:        Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, yoonokcha@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fvwm Manager
Message-ID:  <19980822210550.A20323@astro.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <980822221557.ZM6229@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 10:15:57PM %2B0000
References:  <35DF520F.4D5A@juno.com> <19980822140354.K924@notabene.zer0.org> <gsutter@pobox.com> <980822221557.ZM6229@darkstar.connect.com>

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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.

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