I already tried the command you give and succesfully powerof the vm and gnome-terminal won't close since another bash shell holding it. But as soon as the gnome-terminal close the same as the VM.(Its like sending a close signal to the command they executed before).
It's not sending a 'close command', just informing it that whatever ran it is finished. It takes that to mean it has nothing left to do, and quits.
Quote:
I already tried putting "&" to background command but still no success.
Naturally, since it would believe it's done immediately...
A shell script that waits forever once gnome-terminal quits:
for all friends
i am using linux enterprise 4. i installed oracle 10g
in user name oracle.at the end of install i got a pop up window
saying that u should run the following scripts(root.sh,orainstRoot.sh) in terminal from root account(cui) without log out oracle account .
how i can run these... (5 Replies)
Hello everyone. This is my first post.:o
Using Ubuntu 8.04 and bash 3.2.39 i'm trying to adapt my routine to this platform.
So, this means forget xterm and use gnome-terminal (as default ubuntu terminal). EveryDay i need to connect to several servers, and i've made a Tcl'script to make this... (1 Reply)
I've a python script named rwe.py. I'm running the program in three separate terminals. If one of the executing program stops . I want to leave the terminal as it is so that i can see the error. i wrote a the below script and used cron to run it every one hour to check if the three programs are... (0 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a shell script which uses "mailx -H" to get the subject of a email in a Linux system.
However, the subject is truncated, and I think it has something to do with the terminal width because it only returns the first 80 characters of each line.
I have tried "stty columns"... (7 Replies)
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:
#! /bin/bash
#
#TODO write this for gnome and xterm
USAGE="
______________________________________________
${0##*/}
run... (0 Replies)
How can I make a bash script that keeps on running after I have closed the terminal?
Or a script that runs without having the terminal window open? (1 Reply)
Hey, I am trying to write a script that will open all of my session windows, and then secure shell into the appropriate server in the new windows. Seems simple, but I cant get it to work! Please help! :confused: (1 Reply)
OK this is a bit messy.
I run Fedora with gnome on a compiz desktop, I have a script (userstart) that opens my 'standard' environment for all my machines when I login. userstart flips to a specific workspace and then opens the required applications in that workspace then flips to the next... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
i am trying to create an alias to open a new gnome-terminal and run some commands in each tab & to have a specific name for each tab
i am using csh ,
tried this command
gnome-terminal --tab -t "s1" --tab -t "s2" --tab -t "s3" --tab -t "s4"
it opened 4 tabs but the title didn't... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a script that runs certain simulations in batch mode. I need to schedule some simulations to run over night.
For each simulation to complete it should be run in separate terminal.
My script is as follows
sh run_test.sh <arg1> <arg2> <arg3> ...
I need to launch this... (5 Replies)
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gnome-default-applications-properties
gnome-default-applications-properties(1) User Commands gnome-default-applications-properties(1)NAME
gnome-default-applications-properties - configure default GNOME applications
SYNOPSIS
gnome-default-applications-properties [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The GNOME preferred applications preference tool enables you to specify the applications that you would like the desktop to use when the
desktop starts an application for you. It supports the ability to set your default web browser, mail reader, multimedia player, terminal
program, and accessibility programs. For example, you can specify xterm(1) as your preferred terminal application. Then when you choose
"Open Terminal" in the Desktop Background menu, the xterm(1) application will be started.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the gnome-default-applications-properties tool
example% gnome-default-applications-properties
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-default-applications-properties
Executable for gnome-default-applications-properties
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-desktop-prefs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Preference Tools Manual
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
gnome-control-center(1), xterm(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)NOTES
Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-default-applications-properties(1)