On Mon, Sep 12 2011 08:34:46 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > 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?
You can't easily find out what pts the xterm has from elsewhere, but the xterm itself could find what pts it has: $ ls -l /proc/$$/fd total 0 lr-x------ 1 paul paul 64 2011-09-12 16:53 0 -> /dev/pts/30 lrwx------ 1 paul paul 64 2011-09-12 16:53 1 -> /dev/pts/30 lrwx------ 1 paul paul 64 2011-09-12 16:53 2 -> /dev/pts/30 lrwx------ 1 paul paul 64 2011-09-12 16:56 255 -> /dev/pts/30 But I'm not sure writing to /dev/pts files is the best way to do this. I would suggest running something like this in your xterm: mkfifo /tmp/myfifo tail -f /tmp/myfifo and then doing "echo hello > /tmp/myfifo" from elsewhere. -- Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110912160230.gc12...@z.gg
