creating a new gnome terminal, running a command when the term starts...

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Sep2009 11:17, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
| I'm trying to create/invoke a new gnome-terminal, were i start/run a script
| when the term starts up..
| 
| from the gnome-terminal docs, i'm assuming i can accomplish this by using
| the "-x/-e" attribute when i fire up gnome-terminal...
| 
| this doesn't work... others appear to have the same issue...
| 
| so, when i do:
| 	gnome-terminal -x "foo"
| 
| a new gnome term is created, but it hangs without a bash prompt (or any
| prompt) created.

Of course not. You're running "foo". It's _still_ a terminal!
Sounds like correct behaviour to me.

| so it appears that a useless blank term window is displayed. the "foo"
| script is simply an empty script for testing. it has the chgrp of 777 with a
| chown of 777 and a chmod of +x.

Try this:

  gnome-terminal -e sh -c 'foo & exec $SHELL'
or:
  gnome-terminal -e 'foo & exec $SHELL'

The -e option _ought_ to take a command-and-arguments like xterm
does, thus the 'sh -c '....'" invocation. But I have in the back of
my mind that gnome-terminal got this wrong so I've supplied you the
"-e shell-command-string" variation as well.

You might prefer 'foo; exec $SHELL', depending on your needs.

Cheers,
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