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aditya3098

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Registered: 2014-05-01

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[SOLVED]Virtual terminal buffer

Hi,
I would like to create some kind of "virtual terminal" buffer so I can run ncurses programs and send user input to them through a script, something like:

<some command to start the virtual terminal> -e curses_app &
<some command to send the input>  -key "F10"

I thought of starting an xvfb+tiling wm+xterm/rxvt and then xdotooling my way through, but it seemed overkill.

So is there any program that can do that

Last edited by aditya3098 (2014-10-21 15:58:54)

Spider.007

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual terminal buffer

Did you have a look at `expect`?

aditya3098

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Re: [SOLVED]Virtual terminal buffer

Perfect. Thanks