Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:20:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Frank Heitmann <fh31415@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting programs in X Message-ID: <20020915152022.GA70101@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020915161638.A866@host1.myhost.mydomain> References: <20020915161638.A866@host1.myhost.mydomain>
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 04:16:38PM +0200, Frank Heitmann wrote: > Hello everybody! > > When I start 'emacs' in an xterm window it automatically > opens a new window. I would like this behaviour also for > other programs (slrn and mutt for example). > > At this time I do: "xterm -geometry 100x50 -e slrn &", > but I would like to enter just slrn (like I have just to > enter emacs) and I would also like to read the geometry > setting from .Xresources (like emacs does). > > I could create a small script with just the above line in > it to start slrn, but I believe there is another way to do > this - one I do not know yet :) When emacs open a new window it is emacs itself that detects that it is running under X and opens a new window. slrn (and mutt) don't know anything about X, and in particular they don't know how to open a new window (or anything else about windows for that matter). This means that creating a script as wrapper around slrn is in fact the only way to do it. (There is actually another way, which is to add X support to slrn, but this is a lot of work and definitely non-trivial.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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