Q: How Do I Customize My UNIX Account

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Note: Performing these customizations requires that you alter your dot files. If you are not familiar with these files and how they work, you should not attempt to customize your account.

1. Adding a background to your defaults. Place in your .environment file a line specifying the background:

   # this sets the background
   setenv XBACKGROUND 'xsetbg /:/system/common/multimedia/images/impcruiser.gif'
   

   The "imprcruiser.gif" is the image to be set on the background. Be sure to include the entire pathname of the background file. The backgrounds and sounds provided by GLUE have been moved to new directories:

   /:/system/common/multimedia/images
   
   /:/system/common/multimedia/sounds

   You can change the way background images are displayed by adding different variables to the setenv command.

   -fullscreen will use the entire screen to display the image
   -center will center the image on your screen

   Add these variables as follows:

   setenv XBACKGROUND 'xsetbg -fullscreen /:/system/common/multimedia/images/impcruiser.gif'
   

   Find more fun variables here.

2. If you want to change window managers, there is a line in the .cshrc.mine file that says something like:

   set WINDOW_MANAGER twm
   

   Just replace twm with olwm, fvwm or tvtwm if you want one of those as your window environment.