Starting gnome-terminal in foreground?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:48:59 +0200, 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

A script is attached.

Regards,
Ralf

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