2000 / 06 / 24

How to use a different Window Manager with CDE

If the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is the default environment on your machine, and you want to use a Window Manager other than the default dtwm, there are two ways to accomplish this:

dtprofile

This is probably the better method of the two, add the following line to the .dtprofile file in your home directory:


SESSIONTYPE=xdm

Xdefaults

This is not as elegant, but what I was using before I discovered the the dtprofile configuration above. Add the following line in the .Xdefaults file in your home directory:


*wmStartupCommand: full_path_to_your_prefered_window_manager

Watch out, with this change, you are no longer using dtwm, but you are still running in a dtsession, therefore you need to use a dtaction to log out. Here is an example of what I have added for fvwm on an HPUX workstation:


     "Log out"   Exec exec /usr/dt/bin/dtaction ExitSession