At first I accidentally sent this just to steveaux, so here it come to the list as well. At 22:34 29-05-00, steveaux wrote:

Hi!

Three questions for the wiser 99% of you! A short answer or a pointer to an appropriate how-to or other documentation, as applicable, will be greatly appreciated. In case it matters, I am using FVWM2 as my window manager.

I think these questions (and their answers) are the same regardless of windowmanager, but it is always better to give too much information than too little. :-)

(1) Because I use Star Office and various Microsoft applications, I now sometiimes catch myself trying to save with ^S in Linux applications. Sometimes I don't and a couple of times, I've simply hit S as the wrong key when trying ^A. When I do this, I suddenly can't use my keyboard at all in that X-window, although it is fine everywhere else. How can I get rid of this control key sequence of ill omen before I slip up in the middle of something important? Or is this actually something that could be very useful that I should know about?

I am not sure about this, but I think Ctrl-S is the keycode for the special "Scroll Lock" key. I also think that another Ctrl-S will set things back, so you can use your keyboard again. Don't quote me on this, before trying it out yourself.

(2) How do I start an application within its own X window? For example, I can open an X window and start Matlab inside that X window. How can I just start Matlab (or pico or pine) from X window A and have it running in X window B?

Start an xterm with the correct parameters. As an example xterm -k pine & will start pine in a new xterm. I don't remember if pine will die when you close the xterm from which you called pine, if it does try nohup xterm -k pine & instead. If you want to know more about the parameters for xterm and what you can do with them, the manpage will probably help you. (You can also change the window title of the new xterm.)

(2) How would I get an array of applications to start any time I use startx?

I think it will work if you add them to ~/.xinitrc However, if you want the programs to start nomatter which user calls startx, you could simply find startx and edit it (it is a normal shell script). Regards Ole Kofoed Hansen okh@post.cybercity.dk ICQ# 25773325 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/