Hi List,

On Jul 31, 2007, at 3:58 AM, freesurfer-request@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

Message: 1 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:06:45 -0400 From: Kevin Teich kteich@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] keyboard issues To: Troy Mcan falcon9202@hotmail.com Cc: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Message-ID: 1185811605.28784.0.camel@fishie.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Content-Type: text/plain

That's a Tcl shell that you can use to issue commands to tkmedit or tksurfer. If you don't need to do that, you can pretty much ignore it. It just means you can't launch the app with & to put it in the background.

Since you must be running under X11 anyway the following is a dirty work around (in csh): xterm -e tkmedit -f /full/path/to/your/data/example.mgz & this will run the tcl shell in another window, that gets "dispatched" from your main window without blocking control there. But it feels somewhat hackish... BTW the tcl shell should end once you quit tkmedit/tksurfer

hope that helps Sebastian

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 11:33 -0600, Troy Mcan wrote:

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Hi,

When I type freesurfer in my terminal, a new shell opens up (with full keyboard functionality), in which I type tksurfer (with its parameters) or tkmedit (with its parameters). When I enter tksurfer or tkmedit, a new shell opens WITHIN the existing shell (along with the GUI interface). I can only use the alphanumeric keys on my keyboard whenever this new shell (for tksurfer or tkmedit) opens within the existing freesurfer shell. This is particularly irksome because the backspace key does not function (and I am forced to cntrl-c to kill the entire session). Are there any solutions for this? Thanks!

-- Kevin Teich