Thanks everybody. This IS exactly what I wanted. And I did notice that nifty little feature Craig mentions, even without having to use "&" after the command. Very sweet! - Van Craig wrote: > Van <vanyel <at> medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu> writes: > >> Here's a convenient function on OS X that I'm wondering if I can do with >> Gnome. >> >> On the Mac if on the command line I type 'open .', the current directory >> I'm in opens up in a GUI window. Similarly 'open picture.jpg' or more >> generally, 'open <filename> ' will open the referenced picture or >> document in the GUI app of choice associated with it. >> >> Is it possible to do the same thing from a terminal window with Gnome? >> >> - Van >> > > > I think gnome-open does what you're after, it even gives you the prompt back > while the opened GUI app is running :) > > Craig _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
