Thanks for a great program.

I wanted to use the terminal mode to interact with a few scripts I wrote, and I didn't want the two terminal windows to run. I tried communicating via environment variables, but osso-xterm doesn't pass them along to the child shell process. I finally came up with a (somewhat hackish) workaround that seems to do the trick.

First, I created a /home/user/.profile with the following:

runscript="/tmp/.runscript_$USER"
myscript="/tmp/.myscript_$$"
if [ -f $runscript ]
then

mv $runscript $myscript
sh $myscript
rm $myscript
sleep 10
kill $PPID

fi

This allows the shell running under osso-xterm to find the script it is to run. I.e. the script is in the /tmp directory. As soon as it is recognized, it is renamed to avoid duplicate invocations. Once the script completes, this code leaves the screen up for 10 seconds so you can read the results, and then kills the osso-xterm (the parent process).

To use it, I created the following script, which I launch from the personal menu:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Wired ethernet start
#
echo sudo /home/user/startEth0 > /tmp/.runscript_user
osso-xterm

With that, you get a single xterminal running with one toolbar where you can interact with the script. Once complete, it exits automatically.

Perhaps others may want to use the same technique.