how to run xterm with nested bash shells, or screen nested inside bash
From an existing plain xterm, I want this command: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen or eg: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by default with a screen session (which works fine), but I want to be able to log out of screen with CTRL-D, and be left with plain bash in my uxterm. Is this possible? (For those who might be caught unawares, if you start with an xterm with nested screen session, and try to open an xterm with its own screen, at least in my setup, the new xterm does not open, instead I get a new screen window/tab in my current xterm. But this is by the by - just in case someone gets bitten by this. I believe it's a limitation in screen or tty, not sure.) TIA Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSQ=8xF0NM-HjocxKkpwZ9B=yl0pgo4web1y1tbq0rj...@mail.gmail.com
Re: how to run xterm with nested bash shells, or screen nested inside bash
Dear Zenaan, Zenaan Harkness wrote: From an existing plain xterm, I want this command: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen or eg: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by default with a screen session (which works fine), but I want to be able to log out of screen with CTRL-D, and be left with plain bash in my uxterm. Is this possible? I’m not quite sure I understood what you want to achieve, but here we go: I tried with xfce4-terminal, but that should mostly behave the same as uxterm. Essentially, there are two problems to solve here: a) xfce4-terminal -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/mc is read as the -c option by the terminal, not the shell. We need $ xfce4-terminal -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/mc to pass -c to bash rather than xfce4-terminal. b) Furthermore, bash appears to have no option not to exit after the command passed via -c exits. However: $ xfce4-terminal -e /bin/bash -c \/usr/bin/mc /bin/sh\ runs /bin/sh after /usr/bin/mc exits sucessfully (use ; instead of to ignore return codes). HTH Best, Claudius -- Please don’t CC me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130831195250.38084...@ares.m.archwiz.org
Re: how to run xterm with nested bash shells, or screen nested inside bash
On 9/1/13, Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net wrote: Dear Zenaan, Zenaan Harkness wrote: From an existing plain xterm, I want this command: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen or eg: uxterm -e /bin/bash -c /bin/sh To result in a nested shell. Basically I want my xterms to open by default with a screen session (which works fine), but I want to be able to log out of screen with CTRL-D, and be left with plain bash in my uxterm. Is this possible? ... However: $ xfce4-terminal -e /bin/bash -c \/usr/bin/mc /bin/sh\ runs /bin/sh after /usr/bin/mc exits sucessfully (use ; instead of to ignore return codes). Perfect. Thank you so much Zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgnsrkmi42p-wa0xa9_wlchmu44qieu6a+dtzkph4ui6n...@mail.gmail.com
