The default windowmanager is Sawfish on all Athena accounts, but you
can readily change it to one of two other supported windowmanagers,
mwm or twm, or to several unsupported ones.

If you use the old, dash based interface, the default windowmanager is
mwm, except on SGI's where it is 4Dwm, the SGI-enhanced version of
Mwm.

There are unsupported windowmanagers available in the "windowmanagers"
locker.  To get a full listing of windowmanagers in this locker, type:

	athena% add windowmanagers
	athena% more /mit/windowmanagers/README

Some of these windowmanagers have problems interacting with gnome. You
might find that you want to revert to the old dash based interface
when using them. For more information, see the stock answer "How do I
GET RID of this new INTERFACE" at
http://web.mit.edu/answers/9.0_release/9.0_punt.html

Incomplete list of windowmanagers (supported and unsupported):

	windowmanager	     locker to add	documentation
	-------------	     -------------	-------------
	   sawfish                                 info sawfish , http://sawmill.sf.net/
	   mwm					   man mwm
           4Dwm                                    man 4Dwm     (SGI only)
	   twm					   man twm
	   afterstep	   add windowmanagers      http://www.afterstep.org/
	   ctwm		   add windowmanagers	   man ctwm
	   fvwm		   add windowmanagers	   man fvwm
	   fvwm95	   add windowmanagers	   
	   gwm		   add windowmanagers	   
	   vtwm.gamma	   add windowmanagers	   
	   icewm           add windowmanagers
           enlightenment   add windowmanagers

To change your windowmanager to TWM, just put the following line in your 
.environment file (or create one using emacs if you don't already have
that file):

	setenv WINDOW_MANAGER twm

If you want to use one of these unsupported windowmanagers, you will need
to edit your .environment file, or create one using emacs if you don't 
already have one, to include the following lines:

	add windowmanagers
	setenv WINDOW_MANAGER wmname

where "wmname" is the name of the windowmanager you want to use. 

Note that with the exception of going from twm to another twm variant,
such as ctwm or vtwm.gamma, you will have to create a new customization
file for your windowmanager when you switch.  Details on how to do this
are given in the various documentation locations listed above.

Last updated: $Date: 2004/03/15 17:29:34 $