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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I still have not figured out quite what & does
>
> It runs the process in the background.
>
> > I cannot manage to get rxvt and icewm and opera
> > to the point where exiting opera leaves me a usable
> > rxvt).
>
> Start opera and rxvt with &.  Start icewm without &.

How would I put this all on one line?
Xvesa & rxvt & icewm -e opera&

I try this and various other things and just get a screen with an X,
or most of the time an error message saying icewm needs X to load.

I have not dreamed up a combination that will do better than get me into 
Opera but when I exit there is no rxvt.  Maybe I should add the icewm 
menu.  (This is BL2 with Xvesa started via an alias).



> > why did someone give '7' as a sample address?
>
> You've got to put something in the sample.
> 7 is as good as anything.

Not for beginners who take it literally.  If there are two computers, one 
is 1 and one is 2.  I make the server 1 and the client 2.  The 7 might 
work if you have 7 computers all plugged together.

> > Do I even need the ifconfig for server - 1.1?
>
> How are you going to get a network up without ifconfig?

The answer seems to be yes.    What does ifconfig do exactly?


> > Can you telnet from one terminal and run X from another,
> > in both cases accessing the programs and/or modem
> > connection on the server?
>
> Yes.

I did that.

The 486 laptop is not very handy as an Xterm because of the 4 colors and I 
cannot get my ethernet connection to work with startxt for some reason. 
Error messages. It will ping and send.  I must be typing something wrong.

Xvesa keeps dumping my 80x30 console setting.  Is there some way to 
automatically put it back when I exit Xvesa?  Maybe in xinit somehow?

> Cheers,
> Steven