[sclug] Pipe BitchX through Eterm

[Matt]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 22:35, luke hinds wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Recently I have started messing around with Eterm and borderless
> transparent windows. I would now like to write a script that will start
> up Eterm when my profile logs in and also fire up BitchX in the newly
> created terminal (and a tail -f of some of my /var/log files as well
> would be cool, like a root-tail effect). So I am not sure how i do this
> - I was figuring it would be a small script i could place in one of
> gnomes launchers.
> 
> Here are the two actions:
> 
> Eterm -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no -x -f 2
> 
> ./BitchX
> 
> I guess i need to pipe BitchX through the Eterm somehow. I put something
> in my .bashrc which only crashed gnome :(

Does Eterm not obey the -e option to specify a command to execute within
itself? E.g.

$ Eterm -O --buttonbar no --scrollbar no -x -f 2 -e 'BitchX'

Matt