joe@mathcs.emory.edu (Joe Christy) (07/05/89)
My machine has recently lost the ability to launch applications
properly from the command line. For example, I used to type
>/NextApps/Terminal &
and a new Terminal window would spring in to being. Now it briefly
appears, then disappears and the shell reports that its job is done.
All the applications I've tried [mis-]behave in approximately the same
way. Shell is particularly interesting; it opens a window, shuts it and
leaves a mini-window at the bottom of the workspace. When I open the
mini-window, I get a Shell window with its content area gray!
Does anyone have any ideas about the root of this problem? It
persists through reboots, making me wonder if the Workspace/Window-
Server has some undocumented default that I've somehow overwritten.
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