Re: FVWM: question about mesging ttys and fvwm

From: Fleish <fleish_at_stu056.bsc.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:33:28 -0600 (CST)

Thank you for your response. But that solution is the one that I said I
was specifically trying to avoid:
   F> turn messaging off on certain terminals that it opens (without
   F> having to add mesg n lines before all programs I want to do this for


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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Albrecht Kadlec wrote:

> >>>>> Fleish writes:
>
> F> I am running fvwm-2.0.43, and am wondering if there is a way to make fvwm
> F> turn messaging off on certain terminals that it opens (without having to
> F> add mesg n lines before all programs I want to do this for) For instance,
> F> when I open pine, messaging is turned off automatically it appears.
> F> However, I would also like programs like irc and rlogin to have messaging
> F> turned off. If anyone knows of a way to do this, please let me know.
> F> Thanx
> F> Todd
>
> if you start xterm -e pine, you should add mesg n in front of that.
> ugly, I know
> but sth like
> Function XtermApp "I" xterm -e /usr/bin/tcsh "mesg n;exec $1 $2 $3"
>
> might help.
>
> if you start a normal xterm and start the commands there, shell aliases
> should do the trick.
>
> regards,
> albrecht
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