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.... I usually have long login sessions (weeks, maybe months), 99% of 
which are spent in rxvt shells, either on this machine or logged into 
other boxen on my LAN. I login as regular user. On 1 desktop, I open an 
rxvt session, su to root, then (try to) duplicate that shell using the 
following CLI commands:


[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:35pm] 325 % ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn 
-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & )
rxvt: No match.
[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:42pm] 326 % which rxvt
/usr/local/bin/rxvt
[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:49pm] 327 % ( /usr/local/bin/rxvt -sl 5000 -fn 
-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & )
/usr/local/bin/rxvt: No match.
[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:53:56pm] 328 %

also tried:

[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:54:49pm] 329 % ( rxvt  & )
[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:55:21pm] 330 % No protocol specified
rxvt: can't open display :0

[root@kabini1, /etc, 3:55:23pm] 330 %


This worked AOK under FC14, apropos of little, but doesn't work under 
FBSD 9.3 .... Any clues as to why not ? It save me a bunch of clicking 
the rxvt icon, clicking the maximize button on the new window, & su-ing 
to root (3 steps instead of 1, grrrrr ....) .... obviously not show 
stopping, but irritating .... Same problem as regular user .... Any 
clues appreciated ....


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