operations of gnome-terminal

chrismiceli · 12-03-2002, 05:44 PM

i am trying to open a program w/ the gnome terminal like this
]gnome-terminal --transparent --shaded --font 6x10 -e /home/user/programs/seti/setiathome

but i need to run it like this
]ghome-terminal --transparent --shaded --font 6x10 -e "cd /home/user/programs/seti;./setiathome"
for reasons. but the quotes don't work, any other way i could do this?

starheart · 12-04-2002, 10:10 PM

   Just create a shell script called sseti and put it in /home/user/bin. Be sure that /home/user/bin in your PATH with echo $PATH. If it isn't then you can add it via /home/user/.bash_profile

The script would be

#!/bin/bash

cd /usr/home/programs/seti
./setiathome

   Tho if I were you I would put setiathome in /home/user/bin too. Then you could just put setiathome instead of ./setiathome in the script.