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[NMLUG] programming challenge
My suggestion is forking the process with a the child having an xterm in it.
Then you can start throwiong commands to the new process from the same
program, if you need an example of forking processes, I can send you one.
michael
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:13:41 -0700, Don Wilde wrote
> Sam Noble wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 15:17 -0700, Don Wilde wrote:
> >
> >>I need to find a way to kick off an xterm running BASH and then
> >>execute
> >>a program within that xterm, but NOT close the new xterm after the
> >>program finishes.
> >
> >
> > I'm sure there's a slicker way, but if you have gnome-terminal
> > installed, you can accomplish both these things from the
> > 'Title and Command' tab of the profile editor. If you set up a seperate
> > profile for this (like if you use gnome-terminal for other uses) you can
> > specify the profile on the command line.
> >
> See my previous response to Wes; this is a cross-platform tool that
> has to run both on X under all kinds of WM and also on TTY/console systems.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, though!
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