gnome-terminal

I am reviewing a number of different java programs and am trying to work out how I can update the reference to the program name once only instead of twice. Is there a way to use a variable in a single terminal command? :S The command I'm trying to improve is of this form: javac Main.java && java Main I only want to change the reference to Main once instead of typing it twice each time. You can do it with one line like this: PC=com/mycompany/Main && CN=$(echo $PC | tr / .) && javac $PC.java && java $CN This will work even if you have a package name as it will automatically replace / with . to

How to change the background color? I selected Profile > Background > solid color , but where can I select the color? Since it seems to be Terminal you're talking about, did you disable "Use colors from system theme" under Colors? Once you do that, you can pick a background color, still under the Colors tab. The Background tab looks like it only allows selecting an image (or transparency), which tripped me up as well. Paul There are two well-supported ways to change the background color of an xterm (remember xterm != Terminal). A. Set the color when you create the xterm: E.g., % xterm -bg

I try to build a little script to start my development environment. For that task I try to open a gnome terminal with several tabs where automatically the rails server and autotest is started. But gnome-terminal --tab -e "rails server" --tab --tab does not work ("error creating the child process"). Also gnome-terminal --tab -e "bash -c \"rails server\"" --tab --tab` does not work. Any suggestions how to solve that problem? Zardoz Here is a nice trick we worked out at Superuser Add a eval "$BASH_POST_RC" to the end of your .bashrc Set the BASH_POST_RC environment variable for each tab to that

I tried to define hotkey as following (global-set-key [(control shift up)] 'other-window) but it doesn't work (no error, just doesn't work), neither does (global-set-key [(control shift down)] 'other-window) But (global-set-key [(control shift right)] 'other-window) and (global-set-key [(control shift left)] 'other-window) work! But because the last two key combinations are used by emacs (as default), I don't wanna change them for other functions. So how could I make control-shift-up and control-shift-down work? I have googled "(control shift up)", it seems that control-shift-up is used by

I have a sh file which includes those lines: gnome-terminal\ --tab\ --title="ElasticSearch"\ --working-directory="/home/username/program/bin"\ -e "bash -c './somecommand'"\ when I run it, a gnome terminal will open and run a command for me. The problem is, when I press ctrl+c to stop the running command, the terminal closed. Is there a way to stop the running command and keep the terminal alive? Thanks in advance. Your command works fine but the gnome-terminal closes after the somecommand terminates, the reason being gnome-terminal not running the bash as it's default shell. To get the bash

This question already has an answer here: Avoid gnome-terminal close after script execution? 7 answers How do you prevent gnome-terminal from exiting after its given command has exited? I'm calling gnome-terminal from a cronjob, in order to create a terminal accessible to the user. The terminal is initially given a specific program to run. e.g. gnome-terminal --tab -e "/usr/bin/myprog" This works fine, except that when "myprog" exits, so does the gnome-terminal. How do I keep it running, but just drop back to a terminal prompt? Try this: gnome-terminal --tab -e "/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/myprog;