Hey everyone,
I really don't know if this category is the right place to ask this, but I'll give it a shot. I'm having some irritating features when running programs with GUI interfaces from the terminal line (I've specifically noticed this with firefox and AIM, although I think openoffice might do it as well). When I run something in the background (ie firefox &), it opens up and everything is fine, but if I try typing a few more commands (anything, ls, cd, whatever), the terminal stops responding as if I just ran the program without the &. It's not a big deal but I just have to open several terminals if I want to run more then a few programs. Any ideas?

I'm running Slackware 10.2 on an old toshiba laptop.

Thanks!

Hmm, I can't emulate that issue. That may be because I run -current. but I don't recall ever having that problem with 10.2.

What Kernel version are you running? Which Desktop Environ/Window Manager? Wich terminal Emulator (x/a/Eterm, Konsole...)?

That might be helpful info for someone smarter than me.

hey thanks for the reply...I'm not sure what you mean, what is -current?

As for the info, I'm running kernel 2.4.31, desktop XFCE. Sorry, I just have the windows manager and emulator which is default on slackware....how do I find that out?

Thanks for the help!

ps ax and see what's running. i've tried running a firefox & and doing a ls and it worked nicely under xfce. might be the terminal that's causing the problem (or maybe insufficient memory?)

ohhh a memory problem...taht's very possible, this thing only has 64 Megs...I kinda think that's the asnwer, I've noticed running one or two things is fine but more and it gets wierd.