Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I would like is to map Alt-F2 to some tool that:
1. Pops up a micro-Bash command line window
2. I enter some Bash command to launch a GUI app and press Enter
3. The command is launched
4. The pop-up box (or whatever) goes away, leaving the child command
running
I read once that the only reason for X is to get more simultaneous
consoles running. I alwaya have an xterm open and find it easy to open
a new tab, type the command and away you go.
But you could map Alt-F2 to a fixed size x-term window, make sure you
add & to the end of the command line and then close it.
I also always have a terminal open, but what I'm looking for is a
two-keystroke overhead: Alt-F2 <command> Enter. Also, most GUI apps have
a habit of dropping cruft to stdout or stderr - stuff that I'm generally
not interested in.
This almost (but not quite) works:
#!/bin/bash
read -e command
${command} &
The problem is that when the parent script exits, it takes the GUI app
out with it. If I don't put in the &, the GUI app continues just fine,
but I'm left with a terminal window lurking around.
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