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RE: AfterStep on RH 5.1?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD\(HA\)/TM)
Wed Nov 4 16:28:01 1998

From: "Himebaugh, Jon, CON, OASD\(HA\)/TMA" <Jon.Himebaugh@tma.osd.mil>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 15:22:00 -0500 
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I also started using AfterStep a couple of weeks ago. After some head
scratching I found out that Redhat uses wmconfig to build your local copy of
AfterStep configuration directory structure. It reads a file in
/usr/share/afterstep. Look in .Xclients i believe.

Jon Himebaugh
Jon.Himebaugh@tma.osd.mil
(303) 676-3798

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Kannengieser [SMTP:jimk@echonyc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 04, 1998 11:17 AM
> To:	redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	AfterStep on RH 5.1?
> 
> I've been using Red Hat 5.1 for about two months now, and recently
> started using AfterStep--at least the version that ships on the Red Hat
> cd. After trying to configure my desktop without much luck, I visited
> the After Step home page and learned that the version of After Step that
> Red Hat ships is not really After Step at all, but fvwm that has been
> customized to look like After Step. Is that true? If it is, then why did
> Red Hat do that? It's very confusing. Also, can anyone point me to rpm's
> of the real i386 After Step binaries that are known to work on Red Hat
> 5.1?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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