First where can I find out more instructions about how to use osso-statusbar-cpu command feature?

I would like to do the following, using a one line command rather than running a .sh script, is it possible and how?


xterm
mplayer -playlist (myplaylist)/movies.m3u.txt

or

xterm
sudo gainroot
any commands

So far, when I put in "/usr/bin/osso-xterm | exec sudo gainroot" into the command line, it opens xterm, but freeze, it does not go to root.


TIA,


bun

You could see if osso-xterm supports the -e flag for exec. Example ...

/usr/bin/osso-xterm -e 'sudo gainroot && other-command-here'

*edit* gainroot worked for me, although I couldn't get any commands which output to actually output anything, although not getting any errors. Also notice there is a problem opening multiple terminal windows without using the menu in the terminal. It add's an extra shortcut bar to the bottom of the main one for each extra terminal you open.

*update* It appears that -e is working as expected, it executes the sudo gainroot as user and then executes ls as user not outputting to the root user. You might want to try a shell script, or perhaps see if using just sudo will work to run whatever command you need to run.

since gainroot starts a shell, for the statusbar cpu,

sh -c 'echo reboot | sudo gainroot'

works as a reboot command. I've used the same for spectool_gtk.

sh -c says execute the string (which must be quoted), so you just feed the real command string to the gainroot subshell.

@Pablo: I have to get it on a .sh script. Cant make the command work...........yet.


TIA,

bun