Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!haven!umd5!jonnyg From: jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Starting remote xterms Message-ID: <4292@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 19:55:33 GMT References: <5345@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: jonnyg@umd5.umd.edu (Jon Greenblatt) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 15 In article <5345@polya.Stanford.EDU> weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes: >I have been using a command of the form > > "rsh remotehost -n 'exec /usr/bin/X11/xterm >& /dev/null' &" This is a very inefficient way of doing things. The X Window buffers ar far more numerous than the equivalent rsh buffers as far as I know. Try the following: "xterm -e rlogin remotehost" This will also solve your problem with hanging processes. Resize will still work if your display is set correctly. JonnyG.