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-----To: Tinkster
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Thank you for the welcome! was very happy to find this place!
What I meant by "sending arguments to them in a certain order" is that once the multiple
terminals are open simultaneously, let's say...there are 9 shells positioned neatly on
screen, at that point, I need to send a specific set of commands to the shell thats in
upper left, then a DIFFERENT set of specific commands to the shell beneath that...
so on and so forth. This means I'll need some way to identify each shell, and send ...
shell named Bob his doughnut, and shell named Sally her coffee....
Tinkster: "Opening (positioning) terminals is going to be a feature of the
DE/WM of choice, not the terminal application."
I will be looking into that. As far as I'm concerned, I'll deal with the positioning once
all the important things are taken care of...like getting the shells open in the first place.
Tinkster: "What are you going to do to those terminals, are they all supposed
to be running stuff on the local machine, do you want to do the
same command on varied machines?"
I'm going to run a different program on each terminal, but they all need to be running at
the same time....I know it sounds ridiculous...I didn't write the programs, I'm just
trying to tie them together. Yes, they will be running things on a local machine, so
we dont want to do the same command on varied machines.
Completely agree with your philosophy btw, thanks for responding!
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-----To: zrdc28
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I'm supposed to be writing a script file, so clicking isn't an option for me
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-----To: evo2
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Thank you! This will be very helpful!
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-----To: worm5252
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worm5252: "What do you have to do?" write a shell script to open/initialize multiple terminals
worm5252: "how many terminals do you need?" 9 terminals
worm5252: "where do they need to be placed?"
screen:
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|_1________|
|_2______6_|
|_3______7_|
|_4______8_|
|_5______9_|
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worm5252: "why do you need more than 1 terminal?"
each terminal needs to be running its own program
each program execution process needs to be monitored
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-----To: ALL
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I'm playing with Xterm this morning, tryin to write a beginners script file to just open
a single terminal and position it. I'll keep you guys posted if I stumble upon any
good info on the web today, or make any significant progress!