[TUHS] foreground/background vs. Windowing

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Noel Hunt wrote in
 <CAGfO01zaZq6r=SGQZzHhLAZSbim7hUs7vCJPa-Y4xDqBro23LA at mail.gmail.com>:
 |> I still like to use ^Z to suspend a running program, even when I use
 |> X11.
 |
 |Since it would appear that that is totally unnecessary in a
 |window system, as Doug pointed out, one has to ask why?

And another question would be why i have a need to add

  pkill -CONT tmux

to my dmenu.sh, aka

  command PKILL_TMUX "pkill -CONT tmux"

to my (currently unused) ~/.cwmrc.

Ie, why use that ^Z TSTP mess when there are so many race
conditions that the signal goes to the wrong program.  (This is
most often from within less(1)<-bash(1)<-tmux(1)<-st(1), then;
and it is on Linux.)

--steffen
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