Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!dheller From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Shell in an X-Window Message-ID: <14752@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 18 Jun 89 23:11:43 GMT References: <18116@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 13 In article dbainbri@ics.uci.edu (David Bainbridge) writes: > Is it possible to open a shell in an X-window, or is the only way to accomplish > this to use xterm. if xterms is the only way, how is it poosible to > get the window id of the xterms, so it can be reparented. Or better yet > how can you set the parent of xterm when it is being created. > > ps. No widgets or toolkit solutions please, as I am not using these. Maybe David doesn't want a toolkit solution, but I know I would. I have heard that there is an xterm widget, but it's not advertized. Can someone substantiate this and also discuss future support of it? Dan Heller