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Re: set skip_foo; window managers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Tue Dec 2 14:17:36 2008

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 14:16:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Kevin Chen wrote:

>> skip_initial_xterm: Is this really a big deal?
>
> I use this because I use xterm instead of gnome-terminal.  But if we don't 
> spawn a terminal window on startup (as is standard on Ubuntu), then it's 
> irrelevant.

Upon a closer reading of the dotfiles, it appears that I can set 
$terminal, so it seems like it doesn't matter.

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