Pierre-Philipp Braun <ppwb@club-internet.fr> typed:
:On Mon, 19 May 2003, Geoff Wing wrote:
:What's the difference between a normal xterm and a launched xterm? I don't
:get what you mean.

The difference I was trying to establish here was your desired procedure:
either
 1) launch an xterm with a shell running, then run screen from that shell; or
 2) launch an xterm with screen running

Both should work.

:xterm -e "screen ; sleep 10"
:which gives
:xterm: Can't execvp screen; sleep 10: Permission denied

That's because it's considering 'screen ; sleep 10' as a command, not
separating into two commands.

I'll try it with blackbox to see what's happening - I'm currently
using WindowMaker.

Regards,
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