Paul Isambert wrote: > Hello there, > > > When started from gnome-terminal, Icedove stays attached to it. I can > detach it by executing "icedove &". The problem is, I can't seem to do > that recursively, i.e. from the terminal call another terminal which > calls "icedove &". The following works: "xterm -e 'icedove'" (with > Icedove attached to xterm), but "xterm -e 'icedove &'" doesn't (xterm > starts and closes immediately). > > Any idea?
Hi Paul, First, about the error. Given the -e option, xterm runs the next argument instead of the shell that it would run by default. So it's trying to run an executable called 'icedove &', can't find it, and exits. The '&' is shell syntax; you need to run a shell in the xterm. The shell would need to both run the icedove command in the background, and produce an interactive prompt. I don't know if there is a straightforward way of doing that. The best I can think of is xterm -e bash --rcfile <(echo icedove \&) or if you want the usual initialisation files to run, you could do xterm -e bash --rcfile <(cat /etc/bash.bashrc ~/.bashrc; echo icedove \&) or use a dedicated rcfile: xterm -e bash --rcfile ~/.my-icedove-rcfile where ~/.my-icedove-rcfile contains . /etc/bash.bashrc . ~/.bashrc icedove & There are a couple of things I haven't figured out: This does not to allow you to bring the icedove to the foreground. Nor does it seem to show stdout/stderr from icedove in the xterm, which I guess you want. Hopefully someone will provide a better answer. -- Cheers, Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
