This creates a version of the xterm that supports color. It will be 80 characters wide and display 50 lines. The last option forces nxterm to run the shell as a login shell. From within the user's Xsession file, you can run a number of xterms, xclock or whatever, all of which will start automatically when you login. Here I want to discuss some more interesting and important tricks that can be done from the user's Xsession file.
All window managers can execute programs from a pulldown menu.
Since the user's environment variables are not usually set until a shell is started, the window manager and any programs started from the window manager will not have the user's environment defined. One trick is to define these environment variables in the user's Xsession file. It is necessary to set these environment variables before you start the window manager. Netscape for its application resource settings. If you want to change any of these settings for your personal environment, you can copy this file into your home directory and modify it.