Re: launch texexec in a new terminal

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Han The Thanh <thanh@informatics.muni.cz> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> does anyone know how to launch texexec in a new xterm (or in
> background so during running texexec I can still do further
> editing)?

The command below will run an xterm in the background; in the xterm
the shell will launch texexec and then launch "read", which waits for
you to hit enter so that the xterm doesn't immediately vanish:

    xterm -e sh -c 'texexec --help; read input' &

You could create a simple Bourne shell script as a wrapper:

    #! /bin/sh
    # x-texexec

    xterm -e sh -c "texexec $*; read input" &

... where "read input" makes the window stay open until you hit
enter. 

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