On 05/19 22:10, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:58:14AM +0200, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> > > Do you get the licence page or an error message or nothing?
> > 
> > When i start an xterm into X, and run 'screen', i get nothing.  The
> > only way i found to get an error msg was to do this xterm -e "screen
> > ; sleep 10" which gives xterm: Can't execvp screen; sleep 10:
> > Permission denied
> 
> Because it doesn't split this in 2 commands.  Try xterm -e sh -c
> "screen ; sleep 10" ?

I think that it calls sh by default, because xterm -e "screen ; sleep 10"
works just fine for me. The xterm closes 10 seconds after I exit screen.
Maybe this changed in XFree86 4.3.0 (which is what I am running)?