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Flickflack

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Friday, May 21st 2004, 3:20pm

"Terminal options" - what are they?

Hi,

I'm trying to run an executable via an icon on my KDE desktop. Now I've selected "Run in terminal" in the icon Properties, and this seems to run the program nicely. However, the terminal window disappears immediately, so I can't actually see what is written in it... problem.

So, does anyone know what "Terminal options" I can use to stop the terminal window closing? And, more generally, does anyone know where I can find a list of all these "Terminal options"? I find the KDE Help is of no use on this subject.

Thanks.

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Friday, May 21st 2004, 5:12pm

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Hi,

I'm trying to run an executable via an icon on my KDE desktop. Now I've selected "Run in terminal" in the icon Properties, and this seems to run the program nicely. However, the terminal window disappears immediately, so I can't actually see what is written in it... problem.

So, does anyone know what "Terminal options" I can use to stop the terminal window closing? And, more generally, does anyone know where I can find a list of all these "Terminal options"? I find the KDE Help is of no use on this subject.

Thanks.

Does the option --noclose help?
(I learnt about it by saying "konsole --help" on the command line)

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Saturday, May 22nd 2004, 12:19pm

Actually, no, it doesn't seem to work. The option --noclose isn't recognised (and the rest of the options revealed by --help don't seem relevant). If it's any help I'm using KDE3, with konsole version 1.1.

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Saturday, May 22nd 2004, 12:59pm

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Actually, no, it doesn't seem to work. The option --noclose isn't recognised (and the rest of the options revealed by --help don't seem relevant). If it's any help I'm using KDE3, with konsole version 1.1.

Here are my versions:

> konsole --version
Qt: 3.2.3
KDE: 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204
Konsole: 1.3

The command
konsole --noclose -e ls -l
opens a new konsole, executes ls -l and doesn't close the window here.
I tried it in the menu editor, too, and it worked.

So the problem seems to be that your version is too old.
But here's a workaround you can try:
Just add a ";read" to the command, e.g.:
ls -l;read
Waits for you to press enter before it closes the window.
Works here, too.