>>>>> Mike McClain <mike.j...@cox.net> writes:
> I'm regularly wanting to transport some text from a vt to an xterm
> window
Is using GNU Screen or tmux an option? They both enable one to
have a single “terminal window” to be shared between any number
of VT's, XTerm's, SSH terminal session's, etc.
(My personal opinion is that GNU Screen is /essential/ to any
“terminal” work.)
> so I wrote a little function :
> toX () { echo "$*" >/dev/pts/1 }
Note that while $* is fine with echo, $@ is likely to be more
appropriate when used with other commands. (I saw them often
used interchangeable, while they're in fact not.)
> only to find that when xwindows/icewm starts up it doesn't always
> open windows in the same order.
[…]
> Is there a way from the CL to detect which pts is the plain xterm
> window or to cause X to open the windows in a specified order?
I know of no fully automated way to do that, but:
thisistheterm () { ln -vsf -- "$(tty)" "$HOME"/.theterminal ; }
toterm () { echo "$*" > "$HOME"/.theterminal ; }
There, $ thisistheterm is used from within a terminal to mark it
as the destination for the subsequent $ toterm commands.
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