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peets

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Registered: 2007-01-11

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[solved] connect to a virtual terminal

I want to start a console-based app (vim, ncmpc, irssi, etc.) in a new terminal (urxvt), how can I do this?

Here are some examples of things I'd like to be able to do:

- launch ncmpc in a new terminal at a given time every morning as an alarm clock
- launch irssi in a terminal every time I start X

If I summon an urxvt, is there a way of knowing which tty it's connected to (programmaticaly), and then is there a way of sending commands to that tty?

Last edited by peets (2007-11-25 15:44:53)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [solved] connect to a virtual terminal

Moved to here.

urxvt -e <command> - it's in the man page.

peets

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Registered: 2007-01-11

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Re: [solved] connect to a virtual terminal

Cool. Thank you!