Sorry for the weird subject line, but it's sort of hard for me to describe what I'm doing in one line.

Although I'm talking about running rtorrent, which a lot of users might not have experience with, I believe that this question could be asked of *any* console/text based program.

Basically, I started using rtorrent (a console based client) to download some torrents. For the first torrent, I right clicked in Konqueror and chose "Open with..." and wrote 'rtorrent' into the field.

Here is my problem: The second torrent opens in a new rtorrent session. I would like to right click another torrent, "Open with" rtorrent again, but have it load in the same console session as the first, not a new one.

Is there some sort of switch that I can add to the rtorrent command (or any console based program, for that matter) that would do this?

Thanks a million for any ideas!

I doubt it. Unless the console program has some sort of
interactive interface NCurses, or whatever, it's not going
to happen, since there is no defined means of inter-process
communication. Unless of course the program was originally
invoked to read it's input from a pipe.


Cheers,
Tink

Wouldn't it be possible to open it in a new tab inside the same window? (Although I'm not sure if that's something BaltikTroika Would like...)