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$ x-terminal-emulator -e nano

it works fine but

$ x-terminal-emulator -e cal

doesn't.
Why is that?

Because "cal" doesn't hold the terminal. Your second command runs the calendar and then immediately exits.

This should work if you are using a terminal emulator that respects the "-hold" option (urxvt does): But you will have to kill the process to make it exit.

What are you trying to do? There may be a better way.

trying to add

command "calendar" "x-terminal-emulator -e ncal -3"
command "procs" "x-terminal-emulator -e ps -ax"

to .cwmrc (swikee)

in case of ps hold is no option because I need access to terminal eg. to kill process.

write some wrappers and put them into /usr/local/bin, or a universal wrapper there, called "term-hold"
then do a
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/term-hold

This accepts something like "term-hold ncal -3" and closes after enter has been pressed, e.g.

^cool.

$ term-hold cal

still doesn't work. first terminal is on hold instead of the new one with 'cal'

Also don't forget "xcal" :



And you might consider just starting htop (or top -- either one will hold the terminal open) in a terminal instead of "ps ax" : I guess my point is not to get so hung up on one way of doing something that you ignore other options that might be easier or better.

I left xcal for later, there is separate thread about it.
'top' already added.

machinebacon wrote:

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#/bin/bash
x-terminal-emulator -e bash -c "$@ && read"

so did that fucking work?

so did that fucking work?

for cal it's fucking perfect.

'-h' is necessary to avoid corrupted output but it disables highlighting the current day, making calendar useless.

anyway I can't figure out full syntax.