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Re: Karl A Magdsick: Re: Athena X Login

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Feb 23 01:12:46 1999

To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, karlm@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 23 Feb 1999 01:12:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: Erik Nygren's message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:41:38 EST"

Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU> writes:

> However, root has the same background as the login screen.  root has only
> the background, a console window and an unboardered xterm window when he logs
> in.  I believe this is because root hasn't specified a window manager.  root
> appearently uses fwvm95 as a default window manager only when in runlevel 5.

Logging in as root on normal Athena workstations starts an xterm and
no windowmanager; Linux-Athena 8.2 behaves identically.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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