opening new xterms from other applications
opening new xterms from other applications
- Subject: opening new xterms from other applications
- From: Jon Dugan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:24:22 -0700
Hi All--
Does anyone have a solution for opening X11 applications from other
Mac OS X applications? For example, from the Opera browser I would
like to execute:
/home/dugan/bin/xterm -bg black -fg white -sl 4000 -e mutt %s
and have a new xterm window open in X11 and then, via the -e switch,
run mutt, an email client. (the %s is the string Opera uses to replace
the email address.)
Each time I get "Unable to start the external e-mail application".
This is not just a problem with Opera, it seems to be a general
problem that the Finder does not think that X11 executables are the
same as Mac "Applications": for example, there is an add on control
panel called "More Internet", that allows one to select applications
to launch in Safari for a variety of protocols, including mailto:.
However, when you select the "Application" to launch -- the xterm and
other X11 apps are grayed out. The Mail.app in /Applications is
clearly available...
If I can get xterms called from external apps, then all console and
ncurses applications can run within them.
Is there a way to either do this with a shell script (I've tried this
with no luck)?
-or-
Is there a simple was to create something like an xterm.app subdirectory
in /Applications that points back to the xterm executable?
Thanks all for suggestions.
Regards,
Jon
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