#40 Start emerge in a screen

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Hi,

I use KDE-unstable at the moment (I like to be on the
cutting edge, sometimes cutting myself :) ) and my
graphics-card likes to argument with my Xorg, which
gives me a second source of crashes, so my desktop
goes down quite often and when it does, it takes
Porthole with it.

To avoid half-emerges, could you start emerge in a
screen?

That way it would keep running when the X-server or
the desktop goes down (and it is the standard way I
use portage when I emerge by hand aka terminal).

Apart from that Porthole just convinced even a friend
of mine, who is a hard-boiled CLI-fan.

Best wishes,
Arne

[Brian Dolbec]

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I don't know much about using screen, but if it is just a
command line thing then go into porthole's mainwindow.py and
add the correct "string" to the setup_command() at about
line 637. If that works good then I can add it as an option
relatively easily.

As an easy test, try using the "Run Custom Command" and
enter the command string by hand like you would from a
terminal and porthole will run that command.

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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I tried the custom command and porthole seems to stop the
command at once.

While the command screen emerge <whatever> works without
problems in the command-line, starting it from porthole
doesn't seem to work, but I don't see the reason for this
(and I don't know what I could speculate). </whatever>