conrad@jupiter.ucsc.edu (Al Conrad, x2370) (09/13/90)
An X icon is a like a suspended job (as in ^Z). In some other window systems, an icon is like an X menu selection, that is, a link to an executable. Each time you activate the icon, an instance of the executable is fired up as a distinct process and the icon stays around. When you close the application's window, it kills the executable (as in ^C). Is there accepted nomenclature for these two approaches? Has anyone imnplemented the latter approach for X? It seems like it would be pretty easy ... fork() and execve(), but if it already exists I won't bother re-inventing it. Thanks in advance, Al Conrad conrad@helios.ucsc.edu