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Re: system.mwmrc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jan 11 23:46:13 1995
To: sdfranks@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:47:04 EST."
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 23:45:59 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> How do I configure the system.mwmrc specifically for my system? The
> only system.mwmrc file I have found is in the /usr/athena directory,
> which can't be changed. How do I make my own system.mwmrc? Thanks
> again.
In order to do this, you would need to make /usr/athena local to your
system and generate a tree of symlinks. One way of doing this is (as
root):
attach -n sipb
cd /usr
mv athena athena.link
/mit/sipb/bin/lndir /afs/sipb/system/i386_nbsd1/usr/athena
Then you can break the system.mwmrc link and modify it by hand. We're
actually planning to provide some scripts to set up the link tree and
copy some things local by default, but we don't have that yet.
In any case, in this situation what you probably really want is a
.mwmrc file in your home directory with your preferred customizations.
Modifying the system mwm configuration file isn't the best approach
unless you're setting up your system for multiple users and have some
special reason to want a different system.mwmrc file for all of those
users than the default.
