Re: FVWM: simple question: how execute xterm and then a script?

From: Bruce M Beach <brucemartinbeach_at_21cn.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:20:23 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> On 17 Aug 2002 19:13:24 +0200, Ulrich Fahrenberg wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Felix Kater wrote:
> >
> > > I defined a Menu to start an xterm like this:
> > >
> > > AddToMenu MenuBackup
> > > + "start backup" Exec exec xterm
> > >

      Along these lines how would some one start multiple applications?
      Consider:

AddToMenu Tails "Tails " Title
+ "Messages" exec xterm -fn 7x13bold -T \
       messages -fg white -bg black -j -rw -aw +sf -sl 200 -sb -e \
       tail -f /var/log/messages

      I have 5 or 6 tails that I bring up and sometimes I would like
      to bring up different groups of them. I tried

+ "All" Exec exec xterm -fn 7x13bold -T \
                  Messages -fg white -bg black -j -rw -aw +sf -sl 200 -sb -e \
                       tail -f /var/log/messages &; \
                  xterm -fn 7x13bold -T \
                     Syslog -fg white -bg black -j -rw -aw +sf -sl 200 -sb -e \
                        tail -f /var/log/syslog &
   I thought the ';' would work.


   By the way I have a very unusual problem with fvwm-2.5.2. It just
   occurred while I was writing this email. And its this kind of problem.
   Intermittent, (i.e. occurs every couple of days.) It seem to occur under
   heavy load, and perhaps is connected with a large amount of output to an
   xterm. What happens is that the output to the xterm freezes, until I bring
   the mouse into the xterm (FocusFollowsMouse) then every everything is back
   to normal. This time was unusual because I happened to have 'top' running.
   The processors were about 75% usage (say), the output stopped in an xterm
   and the processors wentt o to 100.0% idle, (I was doing a series of builds)
   I typed this letter for a while and finally moved the mouse into the xterm.
   The builds started up again and the processors went back to 75% usage again.
   What I didn't do, I'm sorry to say was type 'ps x' to see what it said.
   I know that fvwm-2.5.2 is development, but I need to use it because it
   fixes some serious problems that occurred with an upgrade to xwindows 4.2
   fvwm-2.5.2 seems to work fine anyway. I haven't been on the site for
   a while to see what the latest is.

   Bruce



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Received on Mon Aug 19 2002 - 01:14:03 BST

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