Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 12:13:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Shan-Min Chao <shanmin@lvdi.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A simple X-Win question Message-ID: <19980506121327.E323@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01bd781b$2faf2720$143781d0@shan>; from Shan-Min Chao on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 04:44:39AM -0700 References: <01bd781b$2faf2720$143781d0@shan>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 4:44:39 -0700, Shan-Min Chao wrote: > Hi, > I have a really idiotic questions to > ask. I have FreeBSD 2.2.2, and I installed > the X-Win TWM that came with it. The > question I have is this - how do I open > extra xterm windows? I know this is > a very stupid question, but it has been > bugging me. I try typing 'xterm' into one > of the terminal windows, but it just freezes > the current one and opens up a new one. > I have 4 windows after that, but 1 of them > is useless and only 3 are usable. Any way > around this? Please e-mail me direct > (shanmin@lvdi.net) for the response. > Thanks in advance! twm doesn't support this directly--use xterm&, as Dima suggested. Almost any other window manager will give you a menu with a "new window" option. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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