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Old 02-16-2010, 10:54 PM   #1
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Is command line invocation of gnome-terminal to run more than one command possible?


Hello,

I am trying to learn how to pass more than a one-command startup for gnome-terminal.

I will give an example of what I'm trying to do here:
Code:
#! /bin/bash
#
#TODO write this for gnome and xterm

USAGE="
______________________________________________

${0##*/} [-x] [-g]

run midnight commander in a terminal window

-x	run in xterm (the default)
-g	run in gnome
______________________________________________
"

mcTerm () {
	sleep .5
	mc
	bash
}
export -f mcTerm

if [ "$1" = -h ] ; then echo "$USAGE" ; exit ; fi


if [ $# -lt 1 -o "$1" = -x ]; then
	(
	xterm -maximized -e mcTerm
	) &
else
	(
	gnome-terminal -x mcTerm
	) &
fi
The default option runs xterm without any problem.

However, running with the -g option to invoke gnome-terminal, I get a "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal" error.

This same error occurs if the gnome-terminal line is changed to
Code:
gnome-terminal -e mcTerm
Is there any way to pass more than one command on to gnome-terminal? I have tried various single and double quoting senarios and in a final attempt, I abstracted to an exported function all to no avail. Perhaps even though gnome-term is better at many things than xterm, xterm trumps it in this instance.

With thanks,
Narnie

Last edited by narnie; 02-17-2010 at 06:32 PM. Reason: Fix spelling and grammar
 
Old 02-16-2010, 11:53 PM   #2
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Sorry... I was a little too trigger happy, testing now

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Old 02-17-2010, 06:31 PM   #3
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Sorry... I was a little too trigger happy, testing now
hehe, np
 
Old 02-17-2010, 07:37 PM   #4
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Doesn't seem to.... you could download the src to confirm though. Have you tried passing it a script ?
 
Old 02-17-2010, 11:39 PM   #5
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You could perhaps run bash from within the gnome-terminal, ie:
Code:
gnome-terminal -x bash -c "sleep .5; mc; bash"
 
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