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Configuring Gnome-Terminal

In ubuntu linux, I have a script that opens two terminals. How do I print a seperate message into each terminal and put them into a specific directory?

!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --geometry 90x26+200+10
gnome-terminal --geometry 30x8+700+500

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wesly_chen

> put them into a specific directory
gnome-terminal --geometry 90x26+200+10 --working-directory=/dir1
gnome-terminal --geometry 30x8+700+500 --working-directory=/dir2

wesly_chen

Here are some advanced usage of gnome-terminal
How to automate starting terminal instances for specific tasks
http://askubuntu.com/questions/2538/how-to-automate-starting-terminal-instances-for-specific-tasks

Customize and use Gnome Terminal profiles
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1347856

José Méndez

To send messages to the consoles you may try to obtain the pts number for each console, for example if you run:

who am i
user pts/3 2011-05-05 00:24 (:0.0)

Then you need to extract the pts/3, and use it like this:

echo "Your message" > /dev/pts/3

Hope it helps

tmonteit

ASKER

I'm making progress... The only problem is that when I try to display my message the window automatically closes.

gnome-terminal -e "cat my-message.txt"

How do I keep the window open with the bash-prompt after I display my-message?

wesly_chen

You need to create a new profile.
Open a terminal and select Edit -> Profiles. Add a new profile and name it 'term1'
Then edit the "term1" profile, in the "Title and Command" tag, in pull-down menu for "When command exits:" choose "Hold the terminal open".

Then
gnome-terminal --profile=term1

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tmonteit

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worked perfect!!!

wesly_chen

Great.

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