how to prevent dxterm from auto-starting

[Shawn Mamros]

Somewhere in your .Xdefaults file, there is probably a line like this:

sm.create_terminal: 1

This should be changed to

sm.create_terminal: 0

If you don't have such a line, then add one (with the zero value).
To start up xterm at login time, create a file named .X11Startup (if you
don't have one already) and place the following line in it:

xterm &

-Shawn Mamros
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