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Re: how to run a single X program?



William Ballard wrote:

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 07:23:41PM +0200, Shot wrote:
starts my GNOME/Metacity as usual, while `startx xterm` (or
`startx mozilla-firefox` for that matter) end up in dropping
me back to the commandline and displaying
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm:  bad command line option "mozilla-firefox"
(plus xterm usage help).

use:
startx `which xterm`
startx `which mozilla-firefox`

By default, no path is set up.

I don't believe that: the message above is coming from xterm.

I suggest
man xterm




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