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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) A new OSX 10.12.x terminal from the command line. Post 302997705 by wisecracker on Thursday 18th of May 2017 10:10:11 AM
Old 05-18-2017
A new OSX 10.12.x terminal from the command line.
Hi guys and gals...

After much searching on the good ol' internet I could find nothing, so this is the result.
ALthough many people seem to have asked this question no-one seems to have a solution so here we go.

I need for AudioScope.sh, 'xterm' to run a second program for some of its calibration using the same machine.
'xterm' no longer exists on OSX 10.12.x Sierra, it can be installed but it is unavailable on a virgin OSX Sierra install.

Hence the code below.

Place it into your '$HOME' drawer and call as per the code comments.
Remember to change the access rights before you go.

This incarnation is called 'NewCLI', anyone remember that? ;oD
But you could just as easily name it 'xterm' if you wish. I have both in my '$HOME' drawer.

Enjoy...
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: ./NewCLI ["/full/path/to/program"]
#
# A little bit of the ancient AMIGA in here... ;o)
#
# Save this script into your "$HOME" drawer.
#
# As 'xterm' is no longer available with a default OSX 10.12.x Sierra
# install then this is a workaround to have more than one terminal called
# purely from the command line.
#
# The new terminal will be directly underneath the current terminal.
# Just move the current terminal out of the way and, voila, a second
# terminal with its own environment variables will show.
# '$1' is an optional "/full/path/to/program" argument to be run inside
# double quotation marks as shown.

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal "$1" &

Last edited by wisecracker; 05-18-2017 at 11:15 AM..
 

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vte

vte(1)								   User Commands							    vte(1)

NAME

       vte - virtual terminal emulator

SYNOPSIS

       vte [-2] [-A] [-a] [-B image] [-b] [-C] [-c command] [-D] [-d] [-f font] [-g] [-h] [-i] [-k] [-n] [-r] [-S] [-s] [-T] [-t terminal-type]

DESCRIPTION

       vte is simply a window wrapped around the vte embeddable terminal emulation control, which does most of the work for gnome-terminal. vte is
       used mainly to test the control. Most users do not need to use vte directly, but use gnome-terminal instead.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -2	       Toggle double buffering. Enabled by default.

       -A	       Toggle antialiasing.  The default is that of the current GTK+ default.

       -a	       Toggle audible bell on/off. If audible bell is enabled, visible bell is disabled. If audible bell is disabled, visible bell
		       is enabled. Audible bell enabled by default.

       -B image        Use image as background.

       -b	       Toggle cursor blinking. Enabled by default.

       -C	       Open a "console" connection.

       -c command      Fork the specified command.

       -D	       Use dingus clicking: as the cursor moves over text matching a certain pattern, the matched text is highlighted and the cur-
		       sor changes shape. Disabled by default.

       -d	       Toggle update debugging. Disabled by default.

       -f font	       Specify the font to use. Default font is "Sans 12".

       -g	       Toggle whether to set geometry hints if font is changed. Enabled by default.

       -h	       Toggle highlighting.  Disabled by default.

       -i	       Toggle whether to obey attempts to set the icon name, if applications running in the terminal request this.

       -k	       Toggle whether to keep program running after GTK main loop. Disabled by default.

       -n	       Specify the number of scrollback lines. Minumum number of scrollback lines is 100. Default number of  scrollback  lines	is
		       100.

       -r	       Toggle whether to set cursor color to pale red. Disabled by default.

       -S	       Toggle launching a shell. Enabled by default.

       -s	       Toggle  whether	to  scroll  background image along with text. This option is only useful when combined with the -B option.
		       Disabled by default.

       -T	       Use transparent background. Overrides the -B option.

       -t terminal-typeSpecify the terminal type to emulate.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       vte is designed to emulate the xterm program provided by the X Consortium. In turn, xterm is an almost complete emulation of the DEC  VT102
       terminal. vte supports the same extensions to VT102 as those provided by xterm, through special escape sequences.

       xterm is an evolving program. Recent changes to xterm have been been incorporated into vte.  This includes emulation of the newer DEC VT220
       escape sequences.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching the Virtual Terminal Emulator

       example% vte

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

       VTE_PROFILE_MEMORY      Virtualize memory allocation for debugging purposes.

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/vte	       Executable for virtual terminal emulator

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWvte			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-terminal(1), xterm(1), libvte(3)

NOTES

       Written by Johan Steyn, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004								    vte(1)
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