Starting gnome-terminal in foreground?

[Dave Howorth]

On 2016-08-12 10:28, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Josef Wolf wrote:
>> How would I start gnome-terminal so that it don't automatically
>> background itself?
>>
>> For example, I'd like to have something like that:
>>
>>    #!/bin/sh
>>    gnome-terminal -e wget http://some-host/some-large-tarball.tar.gz
>>    echo "Done"
>>
>> The problem is, that gnome-terminal hands over the command to
>> gnome-terminal-server and exits immediately. This effectively behaves
>> as if gnome-termial would background itself and the echo command is
>> executed immediately instead of waiting until the download is done

It sounds like you want the --disable-factory option or else maybe gwget.

> Sorry, I'm not familiar with gnome-terminal, but you could use xterm
> instead, I think it is installed by default. Something like
>
> xterm -e "wget http://some-host/some-large-tarball.tar.gz;echo done;read"
>
> should do the job.
>
>
> Nils
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