Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!uc!noc.MR.NET!msi.umn.edu!umeecs!umich!samsung!usc!apple!bionet!agate!linus!philabs!ttidca!war!rickc From: rickc@ttidca.tti.com (Rick Clark) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: An xterm Quandry Keywords: xterm, pid Message-ID: <20769@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 25 Oct 90 19:22:35 GMT Sender: nobody@ttidca.TTI.COM Reply-To: rickc@ttidca.tti.com Distribution: na Organization: Citicorp+TTI Lines: 17 I have a desktop-manager-type program, written in C and X (mostly XView), that fork/exec's an xterm process with another program running in it: xterm -e progB There are two things that the top-level program needs that I don't know how to get: the window ID of the xterm window, and the process ID of progB (progB is a C program that currently doesn't have any X calls). The platform is a SPARC. Help! Thanks in advance, Rick Clark rickc@ttidca.tti.com