xwin-32, debian, and colliging window managers

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

Life isn't fair.  I buy a machine to install debian and run lyx.  I get 
my boss to buy a debian box for his number-smasher.  And I'm spending 
my time fighting with nt problems :(


The latest is his effort to have only one display on his desk.  As he's 
wedded to word, that means NT display with xwin-32.

It connects just fine to our digital unix boxes, but attaching to 
debian, the window managers collide--whatever it's running and the 
default manager on the debian box.

I can manually set DISPLAY and use "xauth add $DISPLAY <cookie>"  in a 
telnet application, and launch apps.  But i've tried replacing the fvwm 
line in .xsession/.xinitrc with xterm, with removing the files, and 
general tinkering, and whatever I do, I still find a 

[FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server "pc21307.ansci.iastate.edu:0.0"
      after 25 requests (24 known processed) with 0 events remaining.



in .xsession-errors

What do i need to do to configure this?  preferably in a manner that 
still allows logins from it's own display

rick

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