starting a application in another terminal

[mvdberg112]

Is it possible to start an application in another terminal?
Say, I am in the text terminal 6, and want to start a gnome application in terminal 7 (which is Xterm)?

[sdimhoff]

From terminal 6:

xterm -e gnomeapp &

This will start a new xterm (terminal 7), execute gnomeapp from it and still allow you to use terminal 6 while xterm/gnomeapp is running.

[gerard4143]

I think what mvdberg112 meant was could you start an application in a terminal widow that's already opened...what your doing is launching Xterm with the addition instruction -e gnomeapp &...Gerard4143...sorry for the Hi-jack

[sdimhoff]

Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that.

In lieu of an actual answer... would something like screen be able to suite your purposes? That way you could access that screen session from a different terminal.

[bigtomrodney]

Say, I am in the text terminal 6, and want to start a gnome application in terminal 7 (which is Xterm)?

Assuming you are using one of the VTs (say ctrl+alt+F6 if I get you) you can export your display.

Your first X server should be :0, so export that as your application. You could do the following

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
gnomeapp

That's assuming you want it to run synchronously to show terminal output on VT6. You can just add an ampersand (&) to the end of your gnomeapp to fork it in the background.

Note also, that I specified localhost. You can actually specify the display of another server altogether