How do I dock an arbitrary console application like mutt?
There are two key things to do if you want a program (such as mutt) to be able to start in a terminal window from the Dock or the Clip: (1) Make the terminal window start the program you want to run instead of a shell. Both xterm and rxvt (and its descendants) are capable of doing this. For example: xterm -e mutt rxvt -e mutt gnome-terminal -e mutt (2) Convince Window Maker that the resulting terminal window is not a regular terminal window, but rather some other program instance. Both xterm and rxvt are also capable of doing this. Make sure that -e is the last command option. For example: xterm -name muttTerm -e mutt rxvt -name muttTerm -e mutt gnome-terminal –name=muttTerm -e mutt This causes the instance of the terminal window that you start to have an
