Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:16:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: sawfish saws through metacity Message-ID: <20020923221205.I20965-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020923034318.GB23565@vectors.cx>
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q8 [Isn't top-posting contrary to some RFC or something?] > as it says on that page: killall sawfish && sleep 5 && metacity& *lonnnnng slowwwww nod* Ah ha, no wonder when I just did `ps auxww | grep -i meta` it returned just the command itself. The very odd thing then is when I go to the screen in Gnome 2 that shows "Metacity (Current)," I wonder why it doesn't say "Sawfish (Current)." > 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 Interesting. I would think that for all binary commands that cannot or do not accept a filename on the command line, that undashed flags would be acceptable. > > 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`? > Adam Weinberger > adam@vectors.cx > http://vectors.cx That's all from me. -- 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
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