On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 19:07 -0300, Germán A. Racca wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:06 -0500, Jake Peavy wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Germán A. Racca > > <german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm running a program called IRAF to work with astronomical > > images, and > > it needs to use the graphic capabilities of an xterm, not > > gnome-terminal. So, I'm trying to make a very simple script to > > start > > IRAF, but first I have to know if I'm on an xterm (so it > > enters directly > > to IRAF) or a gnome-terminal (in this case the script must > > open an xterm > > before). ppid=`grep "^PPid:" /proc/$$/status | sed -e "s/^PPid:[\t ]*//"` name=`grep "^Name:" /proc/$ppid/status | sed -e "s/^Name:[\t ]*//"` echo $name Of course there are still potential errors. The parent of the shell may not be the terminal. You could check, and if the parent is xterm run in the terminal. if it is anything else, start it in a new xterm. You will then get a new xterm if people are logged in remotely or escaping out from some other app. Perhaps you can live with that? birger -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
