Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:42:24 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Tip #1 of the day :-) Message-ID: <35DE300F.FB2B4901@aei.ca>
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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
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