I tried your code and now I cn not start an xterm. I get
xterm*foreground::  command not found
xterm*background::  command not found

I am unable to get an xterm now :(
How can I start an xterm?

On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Marc Dirix wrote:
>
>> Before leopard, I used to start X11.app, and with apple-n start  
>> multiple xterm windows.
>>
>> Now, as advised, I first tried terminal.app, but I still want to  
>> use xterm. Is there an easy way to
>>
>> So I linked xterm to /Application, however everytime I start an  
>> xterm, it also start a background terminal.app! The same for a  
>> script containing "xterm -e ssh myserver.example.com"
>>
>> How can I
>> 1) Start xterm (with colors set) without an background terminal  
>> app, new fashion way?
>> 2) Create a script, that only opens an xterm, not also a background  
>> terminal?
>
> Are subsequent executions of /A/U/X11.app giving you an xterm with  
> your desired colors?  Can you try something like this:
>
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/login -fp $(whoami) /usr/X11/bin/xlsclients
> sleep 3
> /usr/bin/login -fp $(whoami) /usr/X11/bin/xterm &
> ---
>
> I've wrapped it up in a convenient app bundle for you to try and  
> placed it here:
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/x11-apple/Xterm.app.tar.bz2
>
> I've been forming some ideas on how to possibly combat this race  
> (none of which are extremely elegant), but they're not very well  
> formulated yet.  For now, hopefully things like this will work as a  
> workaround.
>
> --Jeremy
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