Couple questions about Eterm and Debian

[godot]

I'm running Debian (woody) and use Blackbox as my WM. Whenever I run a program like Eterm it sometimes loads multiple copies of the program. Any ideas?

Also, in Eterm, I'm very curious as to how I can get Eterm to run in a little borderless window and track a system log file, like this for instance http://bb.themes.org/php/pic.phtml?src=themes/bb/shots/978377010.jpg

Also, if anyone knows what those little buttons in the lower left corner do I'd really appreciate knowing.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[godot]

Also, i've been trying to install the imap server and whenever I do (using apt-get) it knocks out all network connectivitiy next time I reboot. I run ifconfig and not even the local loopback is present, pretty weird, huh?

[Strike]

Check out root-tail (http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html), the background is a window too ya know http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[godot]

what's "xmkmx -a"? I don't seem to have a program of that title.

[godot]

it's not the imap server that messes up my box, it's the locales package. any idea why it would do that?

[pipe]

Options for Eterm can be found by doing 'Eterm --help'. (not a RTFM answer, just some good stuff there)

Or:

Eterm --scrollbar=0 -x

I'll let you figure out how to set the position and geometry of the window like that screenshot. Hint: move the term around in blackbox and you'll see x and y coordinates, resize the term window and bb will show the height and width parameters. Add the geometry switch (see Eterm --help) plus those settings to the above command to have it look like the screenshot when Eterm starts.

The term in the screenshot is running something like:

tail -f /var/log/messages


The "buttons in the lower left" are bbpager.

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[This message has been edited by pipe (edited 07 January 2001).]