From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 19:44:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11596 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11555 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA00583; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:13:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980506121327.E323@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 12:13:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Shan-Min Chao , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A simple X-Win question References: <01bd781b$2faf2720$143781d0@shan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <01bd781b$2faf2720$143781d0@shan>; from Shan-Min Chao on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:44:39AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 4:44:39 -0700, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > Hi, > I have a really idiotic questions to > ask. I have FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I installed > the X-Win TWM that came with it. The > question I have is this - how do I open > extra xterm windows? I know this is > a very stupid question, but it has been > bugging me. I try typing 'xterm' into one > of the terminal windows, but it just freezes > the current one and opens up a new one. > I have 4 windows after that, but 1 of them > is useless and only 3 are usable. Any way > around this? Please e-mail me direct > (shanmin@lvdi.net) for the response. > Thanks in advance! twm doesn't support this directly--use xterm&, as Dima suggested. Almost any other window manager will give you a menu with a "new window" option. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message