> One of the nicer things about the windoze implementation of mprime is 
> the facility to manually stop & restart the program from the main 
> menu. It gives up its main workspace whilst suspended in this way, 
> though obviously retaining the relatively small resources belonging 
> to its process header block, console window, task bar icon etc. 
> Perhaps this could be exported to mprime by provision of a version to 
> run as an X client? So long as I don't _have_ to run X in order to 
> run mprime!!!

a few USR signals would suffice.  `killall -USR2 mprime` or something...

-jrp


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