On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:29, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > ** James Sparenberg (Montag, 23. Juni 2003 00:51) > > Has anyone else noticed this... In 9.1 no matter what wm you use if > > you do > > > > xterm -e pwd (or any other command) > > Really? I just did an Alt-F2 (opens a small command line in KDE) and > punched in 'xterm -e top' and pushed the GO button. xterm opened with > top running. No crash or any other unnormal behaviour. > > wobo
I found it. They improved things with 4.3 and the others followed suite (since they all build off of xterm.) -e switch will now open the term window... and then automatically close it when the program finishes execution. Which is why with top it stays open and with pwd it flashes.... xterm -hold -e pwd opens the window, and holds it open till you use the X or type exit. Advantage I've found is I can now put xterm -hold -e echo " I've reached point x" or some such nonsense in a shell program and it will stop... wait for me to close the window before proceeding. Makes it handy for stepping through and finding out where the script blew up. James
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