detecting which pts from vt

[Mike McClain <mike.junk@cox.net>]

    I'm regularly wanting to transport some text from a vt
to an xterm window so I wrote a little function :

toX () {   echo "$*" >/dev/pts/1 }

only to find that when xwindows/icewm starts up it doesn't
always open windows in the same order.

    In .xsession I open 5 windows when I launch X, one plain,
one with mc in it, one with 'tail -f /var/log/messages',
xclock and Firefox.

    From 'ps -auwx' I can tell which pid is associated with the
window I want but don't see how that will help.

    Is there a way from the CL to detect which pts is the plain 
xterm window or to cause X to open the windows in a specified
order?

Thanks,
Mike
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