Prevent Gnome Terminal From Exiting After Executio

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How do you prevent gnome-terminal from exiting after its given command has exited?

I'm calling gnome-terminal from a cronjob, in order to create a terminal accessible to the user. The terminal is initially given a specific program to run. e.g.

gnome-terminal --tab -e "/usr/bin/myprog"

This works fine, except that when "myprog" exits, so does the gnome-terminal. How do I keep it running, but just drop back to a terminal prompt?

Answer 1

Create a profile (i.e. hold), set "When command exits: Hold the terminal open" and then

$ gnome-terminal --tab --profile hold -e /usr/bin/myprog

Answer 2

Create a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
# myprog-wrapper.sh - runs /usr/bin/myprog and then starts a new bash session
/usr/bin/myprog
/bin/bash

Give the shell script execute permission.

Then set up your cron job to call this script instead of directly calling myprog:

gnome-terminal --tab -e "/path/to/myprog-wrapper.sh"

Replace /bin/bash with your shell of choice.

Answer 3

You could use xterm or rxvt-unicode instead of gnome-terminal, both of which have the -hold option for this purpose.

Answer 4

Try this:

gnome-terminal --tab -e "/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/myprog; exec /bin/bash -i'"