On 23Feb2010 19:07, Germ�n A. Racca <german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 17:06 -0500, Jake Peavy wrote: | > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Germán A. Racca | > <german.racca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > I'm running a program called IRAF to work with astronomical | > images, and | > it needs to use the graphic capabilities of an xterm, not | > gnome-terminal. The Tektronix support stuff? I once had a physical terminal with that stuff; regrettably it cooked one night:-( | > So, I'm trying to make a very simple script to | > start | > IRAF, but first I have to know if I'm on an xterm (so it | > enters directly | > to IRAF) or a gnome-terminal (in this case the script must | > open an xterm | > before). | > | > This must be too easy, but I'm going to say it anyway. Why not always | > start xterm and run IRAF within it? | | Yes, I can always do that, but I want to make the script also ;-) Have the script start the xterm: : ${have_xterm:=} [ -n "$have_xterm" ] || exec env have_xterm=1 xterm -e "$0" ${1+"$@"} Self starts in an xterm. Untested. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Being on a Beemer and not having a wave returned by a Sportster is like having a clipper ship's hailing not returned by an orphaned New Jersey solid waste barge. - OTL -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines