Re: Apps creating new windows?

[Michael Parson]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Is there ANY implementation at all, for when an app is running under screen, 
> for it to be able to launch a "new window" (for example, to view an 
> attachment in pine, to start a /query in irc, to view a file in MC)...

I know the links web browser (not lynx), can open a link in a new screen
window.  Looking at ps output, it looks like it runs another instance of
links, so it probably does the equiv of

:screen links $newurl

> I'm not asking if this functionality exists in those programs, but if there's 
> a simple way of implementing it (i.e. if the calls exist, etc).
>
> -Dan Mahoney

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