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02-16-2010

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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 something 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 withoug 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

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gnome-session-save

gnome-session-save(1)						   User Commands					     gnome-session-save(1)

NAME

       gnome-session-save - saves or terminates the current GNOME session

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-session-save [--kill] [--gui] [gnome-std-options]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-session-save can be used from a GNOME session to save a snapshot of the currently running applications. This session will be restored
       at your next GNOME startup session.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --gui	       Shows a dialog when the session is saved, and reports errors in dialog boxes instead of printing to stderr.

       --kill	       Terminates the GNOME session.

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Saving the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save

       Example 2: Terminating the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill

       Example 3: Using the GUI to terminate the user's current session

       example% gnome-session-save --kill --gui

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-session-sThe command-line executable for the application.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-session 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-std-options(5), default.session(5), gnome-smproxy(1), gnome-session(1)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    13 Jan 2003 					     gnome-session-save(1)