Paul Isambert wrote:
Hello there,
When started from gnome-terminal, Icedove stays attached to it. I can
detach it by executing "icedove&". The problem is, I can't seem to do
that recursively, i.e. from the terminal call another terminal which
calls "icedove&". The following works: "xterm -e 'icedove'" (with
Icedove attached to xterm), but "xterm -e 'icedove&'" doesn't (xterm
starts and closes immediately).
Any idea?
Hi Paul,
First, about the error. Given the -e option, xterm runs the next
argument instead of the shell that it would run by default. So it's
trying to run an executable called 'icedove&', can't find it, and
exits.
The '&' is shell syntax; you need to run a shell in the xterm. The
shell would need to both run the icedove command in the background,
and produce an interactive prompt. I don't know if there is a
straightforward way of doing that. The best I can think of is
xterm -e bash --rcfile<(echo icedove \&)
or if you want the usual initialisation files to run, you could do
xterm -e bash --rcfile<(cat /etc/bash.bashrc ~/.bashrc; echo icedove \&)
or use a dedicated rcfile:
xterm -e bash --rcfile ~/.my-icedove-rcfile
where ~/.my-icedove-rcfile contains
. /etc/bash.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
icedove&
There are a couple of things I haven't figured out:
This does not to allow you to bring the icedove to the foreground.
Nor does it seem to show stdout/stderr from icedove in the xterm, which
I guess you want.