nanogui: Can't run nano-X as a background process?
Subject:
RE: [nanogui] Can't run nano-X as a background process?
From:
"Geldmacher, Russell" ####@####.####
Date:
25 Aug 2005 17:57:48 +0100
Message-Id: <956C5D6C4F743B449A45E8BD1C8AAFB5F9E138@hdsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
Oh, wow, when I put the commands into a shell script:
#!/bin/sh
./nano-X & sleep 1; ./world
Everything worked!
Thanks for your help Greg. Not so sure what exactly is going on here,
but this lets me continue experimenting around.
Thanks again,
rusty
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Haerr ####@####.####
>Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:46 PM
>To: Geldmacher, Russell; ####@####.####
>Subject: Re: [nanogui] Can't run nano-X as a background process?
>
># ./nano-X & sleep 1; ./world
>
>: If I go back to the local console and hit Ctrl-Z and then do "fg",
the
>: world map will show up on the screen!
>
>: So it looks to me like a background process issue. Has anyone else
come
>across this? Maybe it's something in my kernel? Or maybe it's something
>to do with the way I configured Nano-X when building it.
>
>Yes, this is very strange, and I think something to do with the
>shell, not the kernel nor Microwindows. I've found that if
>the statements are put in a shell script, (see *.sh demos),
>everything works fine. I've definitely run into this problem.
>
>It would be nice to figure out what's going on with job
>control, tty console handling, and the shell... Any
>other comments?
>
>Regards,
>
>Greg
