[comp.windows.x] starting andrew toolkit with diff wm

bader+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Miles Bader) (03/10/88)

Charles Wiecha <WIECHA@ibm.com> writes:
> Miles -- can you give some more details about how you've run toolkit
> applications under a different window manager than cwm?  I've started the
> server with an xterm client, then run wm from xterm and get the message
> that ez won't run without 'the' window manager....

The atk clients use an environment variable, BE2WM, to decide which
window system to connect to.  For X, it should have a value of "x11"
(lowercase x) (the script that starts up cwm does set this).  "The
window manager" in that message actually refers to CMU's homegrown
windowing system, which is the default (for good reason at CMU, but I
suppose it's sort of stupid for the version on the X tape...). 

SO...just doing a "setenv BE2WM x11" should get rid of THAT problem.

-Miles