How do I make a program launch in terminal?
 

I have a program set to auto run on start in sessions. Is there a flag or something I can use to make it run in the terminal?

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example:

xterm -e bash -c 'date;read'

Let me try this another way. If I use ALT F2 to launch a program and I want it to run in a terminal what would I need to type? For example Firefox or Pidgin. I know that there is a box I could tick to run in a terminal but I would like to know the command instead.

Umm as far as I understand, those are graphical programs so running them "in a terminal" means you want a terminal to which they print their possible stdout/stderr messages, and that would happen by running a terminal which in turn would execute the preferred app, like
This should run xterm, which should run 'firefox' in turn, and when 'firefox' exits, xterm should too if I'm right.

EDIT: of course you can use any terminal you like instead of 'xterm', like 'rxvt' or 'konsole' or such. Just remember to make sure you know which parameter you need to execute a program in it; for xterm it's '-e', and it's the same for rxvt too I guess, but not sure about Konsole for example.

OK thanks for the reply. What would I do if i wanted a startup script to run in a terminal?

just type "firefox"