Re: gnome-terminal without the fork?

[Sebastian Kapfer <s.kapfer_usenet@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:00:15 +0100, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have an old script which runs gnome-terminal to ask for user input,
> then takes that input and does something with it.

*cough* zenity xdialog *cough*

> Unfortunately, the new gnome-terminal seems to fork itself, so the
> script moves on without waiting for the gnome-terminal to exit.
> 
> How do I change this?

You might want to try the --disable-factory argument.  The terminal isn't
actually forking, but using some Bonobo factory to do the actual work.

> The manpage gives a "-x" switch, but that seems to be equivalent to -e
> according to what gnome-terminal tells me when I try it...

Try

gnome-terminal -x less /etc/motd
gnome-terminal -e less /etc/motd
gnome-terminal -e "less /etc/motd"

to see what the difference is :-)

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