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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Xclock and background Post 302294528 by otheus on Thursday 5th of March 2009 11:19:09 AM
Old 03-05-2009
in the unix shell, "background" means running while not attached to the current terminal. In XWindows, it refers to any window that is either (1) obstructed by another window OR (2) a window not having the "focus".

Here's a HOWTO that will help you understand what options you can provide to just about any X program: X and the Command Line

And here's a reference of such options: X(7) manual page

I suggest "-iconic", but if that doesn't do what you want, you'll need to tell the window manager to assign focus to the command window.

Finally, the wmctl command might help you: man wmctrl - interact with a EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager. / Commandes destinées aux utilisateurs
 

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uri_urn(n)					    Tcl Uniform Resource Identifier Management						uri_urn(n)

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NAME
uri_urn - URI utilities, URN scheme SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2 package require uri::urn ?1.1.2? uri::urn::quote url uri::urn::unquote url _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This package provides two commands to quote and unquote the disallowed characters for url using the urn scheme, registers the scheme with the package uri, and provides internal helpers which will be automatically used by the commands uri::split and uri::join of package uri to handle urls using the urn scheme. COMMANDS
uri::urn::quote url This command quotes the characters disallowed by the urn scheme (per RFC 2141 sec2.2) in the url and returns the modified url as its result. uri::urn::unquote url This commands performs the reverse of ::uri::urn::quote. It takes an urn url, removes the quoting from all disallowed characters, and returns the modified urls as its result. BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category uri of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for either package and/or documentation. KEYWORDS
rfc 2141, uri, url, urn CATEGORY
Networking uri 1.1.2 uri_urn(n)
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