From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 20:43:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF3D37B401 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vectors.cx (manifold.vectors.cx [64.163.147.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BD043E6E for ; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: from vectors.cx (37defd7e75a051a9f99f140cb020cafd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g8N3hJho044192; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey@vectors.cx) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by vectors.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g8N3hJxU044191; Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from monkey) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:43:18 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: sawfish saws through metacity Message-ID: <20020923034318.GB23565@vectors.cx> References: <20020922201641.I2351-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020922201641.I2351-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> X-Editor: Vim 6.1 http://www.vim.org X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5 http://www.mutt.org X-URL: http://www.vectors.cx http://www.crackula.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q8 as it says on that page: killall sawfish && sleep 5 && metacity& and as for the dashes disappearing, it's actually the other way around. they started out WITHOUT dashes, but the GNU argument convention dictated their insertion. -Adam >> (09.22.2002 @ 2019 PST): Peter Leftwich said, in 0.8K: << > Hi List how is everyone? When I am in Gnome 2 and go to my MainMenu > button, then Applications > DesktopPreference > Advanced > WindowManager it > says "Metacity (Current)." But when I run... > > # ps auxww | grep sawfish | grep X11 > root 2207 0.0 1.0 8028 4984 ?? Ss 8:13PM 0:01.27 /usr/X11R6/bin/sawfish --sm-client-id 106ea433a2000103250212600000033730002 --sm-prefix a62se3o4ox > > ...it looks as though sawfish squeaked in there somehow! Anyone any ideas? > > My second question is simple and silly. Why do some commands such as tar > and ps not require the dash as in `ps auxww` and `tar zxvf file.tgz`? > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> end of "sawfish saws through metacity" from Peter Leftwich << -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" Adam Weinberger adam@vectors.cx http://vectors.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message