On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:29:34AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > The man page exaggerates a bit. Without "exec", the xterm is > started as a separate process, whereas with "exec" it replaces the > *parent* shell: > > Without exec: > > bash > xterm > bash (client app) > > With exec: > > xterm (replaces original bash) > bash (client app)
I added an entry to the menu so that I have ``XTerm'' and ``Other Xterm,'' with the former using `Exec xterm' and the latter using `Exec exec xterm.' When I open ``Xterm'' and ``Other XTerm'' from the menu and then do a ``ps -ax'' I get one xterm and one bash entry for both. I also noticed that my xterm is really a shell script calling xterm.real (the real binary), so I changed both menu entries to call xterm.real directly --- with the same results as above. My ps output shows something like this: 29836 ? S 0:00 xterm.real -sb <more options> 29837 pts/1 S 0:00 bash Since bash is listed after xterm.real, does this mean that bash is xterm's client (as in your second scenario above)? If so, why do using both ``Exec exec xterm'' and ``Exec xterm'' seem to produce the same results. I'm not trying to belabor the point; I just want to be sure I don't have unnecessary processes going on. Thanks very much. -- Norvell Spearman -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
