terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

tortilla · 2022-09-08 14:07:28

Hi,

when xfce4-terminal is started on the desktop, the terminal window remains shown after the commands are executed in the window. I want the terminal window to stay shown when I save this command

xfce4-terminal -- command restic -r /home/username/backupNr1 mount mountdir

or just like that

restic -r /home/username/backupNr1 mount mountdir

in a .desktop file and then start it via xfce4--appfinder. How can I achieve this?

Thank You!

Last edited by tortilla (2022-09-09 06:47:41)

ToZ · 2022-09-08 18:24:28

Assuming bash, try using:

xfce4-terminal -e 'bash -c "restic -r /home/username/backupNr1 mount mountdir; bash"'

tortilla · 2022-09-09 06:43:26

Yes, it works. Thank You @ToZ!

tortilla · 2022-09-20 09:48:54

It does work. But I noticed that bash appears a second time before the quotation marks - I mean this.

'bash -c " [...] mount mountdir; bash"'

a second time. Is it syntactically correct?

ToZ · 2022-09-20 10:12:58

The second bash command runs the shell again which keeps the window open for further processing.

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terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

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Re: terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

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Re: terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

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Re: terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

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Re: terminal window show permanently when starting from appfinder [solved]

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