SUMMARY - Allowing users to choose FVWM in CDE login screen

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I wrote the other day:

>
> Hi.
>
> Several days ago, I wrote that I was able to add FVWM as a choice for
> CDE login/session screen by creating
> /usr/dt/config/C/Xresources.d/Xresources.fvwm which looks like the
> following:
>
> Dtlogin*altDtsIncrement: True
>
> Dtlogin*altDtName: FVWM Desktop
> Dtlogin*altDtKey: /usr/bin/X11/fvwm
> Dtlogin*altDtStart: /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> Dtlogin*altDtLogo: Dtlogo
>
> Every time I chose fvwm in the CDE login/session screen, I saw an xterm
> console. I expected to see the FVWM desktop but did not. I then had to
> type fvwm to start FVWM.
>
> What was happening was that when I choose fvwm,
> /usr/dt/config/Xfailsafe ran instead of /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.
>
> So I am back to the beginning. How can start FVWM from the CDE
> login/session?
>
> Thanks.
>

Thanks to Olivier.Florent@masi.ibp.fr, now I can choose between
CDE/FVWM/OPENWIN at the CDE login/session screen. All I had to was to
make /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession executable.

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