From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 21 19:43:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12851 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12845 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:43:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@[207.107.48.71]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21696 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:42:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35DE300F.FB2B4901@aei.ca> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:42:24 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Tip #1 of the day :-) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you want than your command start in the background, add a " &" at the end. Exemple: You want to start Xfree86 but dont want it to use one of your precious terminal. --- startx & --- Then, you find than there is only 2 xterm and a login in your Xwindow. So, if you type "xterm" alone in one of the xterm, it will start another xterm, but the previous one will not be useable! The solution is to start the xterm in background in xwindow: --- xterm & --- -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message