Re: normally start new xterms

[conover@panix.com (John Conover)]

Thanks Thomas.

    Have a good one ...

        John

Thomas Schmitt writes:
> Hi,
> 
> i wrote:
> > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg wheat -fg black -sl 10000 +sb
> 
> John Conover wrote:
> >                                        ^^^^
> >                                        Action 'Exec exec xterm ...'
> 
> The framework of this line probably stems from a SuSE Linux of 1999.
> It still works with the fvwm of Debian 11.
> 
> I now read man 1 FvwmButtons. All applicable descriptions and examples
> demand the keyword "Action".
> 
> The "exec" before "xterm" is used in some examples of the man page and
> mentioned already in my S.R.Bourne of 1983 (without "xterm", of course).
> As reasoning i found
>   https://www.fvwm.org/Wiki/Tips/FvwmStartup/#33-use-exec-exec-to-prevent-unnecessary-dead-shell-processes
> I have 63 such processes lingering around. But there are 131 xterms.
> Many of them have process 1 as parent. Probably they stem from a script
> which i use to populate the 8 "desktops" by a handful of xterms when the
> system comes up.
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas

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