(-: Not an official HP response :-)
> Well, with the upgrade of our OS to Solaris-2.5 comes this beast known
> as CDE 1.0.0.
> ...
> And this thing that looks like a dashboard to switch between virtual
> workspaces; reminded me some of cvtwm.
CDE is a rework of HP's VUE, done by/for the COSE group (probably HP,
SUN, IBM, SCO, and maybe others.) The inter process (module, tool or
whatever) communication mechanism was changed from HP's BMS (broadcast
message server) to Sun's ToolTalk.
According to its author, CTWM, although not based on VUE uses the same
"rooms/workspace" concept. However CTWM is a derivative of TWM, as is
FWWM.
VUE sources ~/.vueprofile, instead of ~/.profile, at the end of its
initialization. To use VUE's login screen and authentication but run
some other window manager, the easiest way is to exec some other script
at the end of ~/.vueprofile. If CDE uses a similar mechanism this will
be the way to go. I would bet this will be called ~/.dtprofile.
This is (more or less) what I do to run FVWM from ~/.vueprofile:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VUE=true
export VUE
. ${HOME}/.commonProfile # shell (almost) independent initialization
exec ${HOME}/.x11start # start X the old fashioned way
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Somewhere within ~/.x11start (or its derivatives) I invoke fvwm.
-- Henrique (martins_at_hpl.hp.com)
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Received on Fri May 24 1996 - 18:25:37 BST