On 23Feb2010 19:07, Germ�n A. Racca <german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
The Tektronix support stuff? I once had a physical terminal with that
stuff; regrettably it cooked one night:-(
| > 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).
| >
| > This must be too easy, but I'm going to say it anyway. Why not always
| > start xterm and run IRAF within it?
|
| Yes, I can always do that, but I want to make the script also ;-)
Have the script start the xterm:
: ${have_xterm:=}
[ -n "$have_xterm" ] || exec env have_xterm=1 xterm -e "$0" ${1+"$@"}
Self starts in an xterm. Untested.
Cheers,
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