re xdm and env vars in article aa haji haji sun fwr bv fin af mil writes i am using xdm on x r with ow and xview on sun s and sparcs running sunos prior to using xdm i used to set path and other environment variables like manpath helppath arch etc in my login file with xdm the login file doesn t get executed and therefore neither the olwm root window nor my applications know about these variables you should try having a xsession script in home to do these things xdm will start up your process using the system version usually usr lib x xdm xsession which should check whether you have your won and change to that if you do take a copy of the system one and edit it note that this file requires x access to be set gordon lack the contents of this message may reflect my personal opinion they are not intended to reflect those of my employer or anyone else
