I'm looking for a linux terminal emulator that I can use to ssh to a database environment, run apps in the database environment, and have a pgm written in the database cause the terminal emulator to execute a local command on the local client. I have used windows terminal emulators that have an escape sequence that accomplishes this, and would like to do the same from linux, using meld. I would like print an Esc sequence the would kick off a meld compare, something like EscSeq "meld fileA fileB". Or something along those lines. Would RoxTerm, or any other linux terminal emulator, give me this capability?

I don't think so. ROXTerm uses vte, the same as gnome-terminal, which is based on traditional Unix terminal emulation. Allowing a server to run commands on the client would probably be considered highly insecure.

Perhaps. But when you are automating certain manual functions, you could make the arguement that it's much more secure to automate than to continue with an error-prone manual process. But thanks for the response!

Can you get the database to run any command on the server and can you set up a ssh server on the client? Then the database could easily run a command on the client with a reverse ssh connection, but it wouldn't run in the same terminal of course. It might even be possible to use the ssh connection two-way somehow.

I have done a reverse ssh connection in the past at other jobs, but here I don't have total control of this server, and the client is my personal laptop. So no, I don't intend to allow the server to ssh into my laptop. Now that would be insecure!