Re: sub window for shell script

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Dave Mason wrote:
> I'm trying to have my app create a sub window, where I will call a shell 
> script, whose output will go in that window.  When the script finishes, 
> I want the window to close.
>
> Should I use GdkWindow?  If so, how do I go about calling the shell script?

Why not just use "xterm -e program arg1 arg2 ...".  This instructs xterm 
 to run the given program with the given arguments.  Read the xterm (or 
gnome-terminal) man page for more information.

The option may not exist for other terminal emulators, or may be called 
something different.  For example, with the old gnome-terminal (v 1.2.2) 
"gnome-terminal -x" does is used instead of "xterm -e".

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
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