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What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

There's no documentation on osso-xterm, so I'm looking through the source to try to find out what CLI arguments are supported.

Here's the main:

Code:

int

main(int argc, char **argv)

{

  gboolean started_from_dbus = FALSE;



  if (argc > 1)

    started_from_dbus = !strcmp(argv[1], "--started-from-dbus");



  g_debug("main: started_from_dbus = %s\n", started_from_dbus ? "TRUE" : "FALSE");



  if (dbus_setup(started_from_dbus)) {

    gtk_init(&argc, &argv);



    preamble(&argc, &argv, APPLICATION_NAME);

    gdk_rgb_find_color(gdk_colormap_get_system(), &clr_white);

    gdk_rgb_find_color(gdk_colormap_get_system(), &clr_black);



    xterm_new(argv);



    gtk_main();

  }



  return 0;

}

The arguments are passed to "gtk_init", which I'm ignoring because that wouldn't be xterm specific arguments, and they're also passed to "preamble":

Code:

void

preamble(int *p_argc, char ***p_argv, const char *base_name)

{

  int Nix;



  g_set_application_name(base_name);

  for (Nix = G_N_ELEMENTS(stock_icons) - 1 ; Nix > -1 ; Nix--)

    add_stock_icon(stock_icons[Nix].fname, stock_icons[Nix].stock_name);

}

Which seems to ignore CLI arguments. "xterm_new" also gets an argv, but the specification for xterm_new does not accept any arguments, so I'm not sure why it compiles. I must be missing something. This code is difficult reading.

My goal at the moment is to simply launch an xterm window from a script, and have it execute something (in this case, "tail -f <some log file>")

My blind guess was to try:

osso-xterm -x "tail -f /var/log/file"
osso-xterm -c "tail -f /var/log/file"
/usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-xterm.launch -x "tail -f /var/log/file"

All those attempts have failed.

Re: What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

osso-xterm -e "tail -f /home/user/ledcolor.py"

^^ Opens an osso-xterm and keeps the window open here.

(-e was actually a guess :\)

Re: What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

In reply to your question over IRC (before you got disconnected),
either:

source /etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh
or
Prefix the maemo-summoner command with "run-standalone.sh"

Re: What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 311922)

source /etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh
or
Prefix the maemo-summoner command with "run-standalone.sh"

The only way I've been able to launch xterm w/ a tail command is to run:

Code:

/usr/bin/maemo-summoner /usr/bin/osso-xterm.launch \

  -e "tail -f <file>"

And in that case, the two scripts you're suggesting aren't needed, and don't make an apparent difference.

I thought "run-standalone.sh" was supposed to make the maemo-invoker work, but it doesn't seem to. I have yet to see maemo-invoker work; but I'm not sure why it matters at this point, since maemo-summoner works.

[EDIT] I've discovered that "source /etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh" is needed in order to launch from an openvpn script for some reason. This actually fixes another issue I was having ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30809 )

Re: What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

Source isn't a script. It's a command that you include in the script (before maemo-summoner).

(I know source works because I've used it in scripts that run as root and run dbus-send, not even maemo-summoner.)

Re: What commandline args are supported by osso-xterm?

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty12 (Post 311929)

I wasn't talking about the source command. Source is simply an instrument for invocation to run without subshelling. I was talking about the script (/etc/osso-af-init/af-defines.sh). That script makes no difference when running from the CLI. The maemo-summoner works with or without it.

But where it helped was when the call to maemo-summoner had to be embedded within an openvpn config file.