Re: XForms: launching X applications

Daniel Blvmer (bloemer@cs.uni-bonn.de)
Fri, 05 Sep 1997 18:49:47 +0200

To subscribers of the xforms list from Daniel Blvmer <bloemer@cs.uni-bonn.de> :

Hi,

Steve Lamont wrote:
> > I just want to include a button on one of my forms that runs an external X
> > program. I have a callback function attached to this button that just
> This worked perfectly for me in an admittedly quick test:
>
> void launch_cb(FL_OBJECT *ob, long data)
> {
>
> if ( fork() == 0 )
> execl( "/usr/X11R6.1/bin/xv", "xv", NULL );
>
> }
But from that routine you won't get an error message.
I have read about another possibilty for this, but I don't remember now.

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