Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:14:50 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Frank Heitmann <fh31415@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting programs in X Message-ID: <20020915151450.GD56092@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020915161638.A866@host1.myhost.mydomain> References: <20020915161638.A866@host1.myhost.mydomain>
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# fh31415@gmx.net / 2002-09-15 16:16:38 +0200:
> Hello everybody!
>
> When I start 'emacs' in an xterm window it automatically
> opens a new window. I would like this behaviour also for
> other programs (slrn and mutt for example).
i don't use emacs (vim person), but i believe it behaves differently
depending on whether it detects an X environment or not.
slrn and mutt are ncurses/slang applications, and as such just don't
have the capability you're looking for.
(i might be wrong with slrn, i don't read newsgroups)
> At this time I do: "xterm -geometry 100x50 -e slrn &",
> but I would like to enter just slrn (like I have just to
> enter emacs) and I would also like to read the geometry
> setting from .Xresources (like emacs does).
>
> I could create a small script with just the above line in
> it to start slrn, but I believe there is another way to do
> this - one I do not know yet :)
i don't see another possibility besides a shell alias; i don't
cosider that a valid option as it's shell dependant by nature.
plus, a shell script *could* use your .Xresources file, but you'd
prolly have to write a parser. it would be pretty easy, though.
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