Re: [rox-devel] ROX-Session: Failed to become root

[Vincent L. <vi...@vi...>]

On 2005-08-21 15:58:28 +0100, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> Unfortunately, all the terminal emulators have different arguments and
> behaviour.

I didn't think about that.

> For example:
> 
> 	$ xterm -e sh -c 'date > &5' 5>&1
> 
> prints the date to the calling terminal,

It doesn't work here.

> but:
> 
> 	$ x-terminal-emulator -e sh -c 'date >&5' 5>&1 
> 
> doesn't print anything.

> However, if people want to add support for specific ones, go ahead
> (hint: use the tests/python/testsu.py script to test it!)
> 
> What do you have available?

konsole and gnome-terminal are installed by default. The following
commands all work under Debian:

  $ xterm -e sh -c 'date; read dummy'
  $ xterm -e 'sh -c "date; read dummy"'
  $ gnome-terminal -e 'sh -c "date; read dummy"'
  $ gnome-terminal.wrapper -e sh -c 'date; read dummy'
  $ konsole -e sh -c 'date; read dummy'

I don't know if both forms are portable with xterm, and
gnome-terminal.wrapper is specific to Debian. I don't recommend
using konsole (except under KDE) as it starts a lot of useless
things.

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