[sclug] Pipe BitchX through Eterm

[luke hinds]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 10:47, Matt wrote:
> 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


Bingo! Well done Matt - spot on, it works :)
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Best Regards,

Luke Hinds
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