On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Martin Costabel wrote:
> The "X11 terminal" is in fact the "xterm" program, long name 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/sterm. Unfortunately, Apple start it by default with a 
> non-login shell running inside. You can start it with a login shell if 
> you use the command "xterm -ls", either in the X11 Applications menu if 
> you use this, or by creating a ~/.xinitrc file if you want to start it 
> when X11 starts up. There is some information about this is the Fink FAQ 
> and in the Fink documentation.

Because of the familiarity from linux days, I had liked using xterm.  Is
ther any real reason why one would prefer xterm in mac os x over Terminal?

I have a new question: How does one invoke the programs on the dock from
command line?  Using "man open", I found that commands of the form "open
-b bundle_identifier" would work for the programs that come with mac.  
For example, "open -b com.apple.Safari" can be used to open Safari from
the command line.  But I can't figure out the bundle_identifier of other
programs.  I recently installed carbon emacs and adobe reader and I would
like to call them from command line.  Thanks.

Kannan


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