#!/bin/bash #$1 is the command to be run. #$2 is the title. commands="$1" title="$2" #set DEBUG variable to 1 to display which terminal is being used [ -z "$DEBUG" ] && DEBUG=0 #add a line to the terminal's command-to-run that saves the terminal's PID to a known filename temp_pid_file="$(mktemp -u)" commands="echo "\$""\$" > $temp_pid_file $commands" function error { echo -e "\e[91m$1\e[39m" exit 1 } if [ -f /usr/bin/lxterminal ];then lxterminal --title="$title" -e bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo lxterminal elif [ -f /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal ];then xfce4-terminal --title="$title" -x bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo xfce4-terminal elif [ -f /usr/bin/mate-terminal ];then mate-terminal --title="$title" -x bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo mate-terminal elif [ -f /usr/bin/xterm ];then xterm -T "$title" -e bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo xterm elif [ -f /usr/bin/konsole ];then konsole -p tabtitle="$title" -e bash <(echo "$commands") & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo konsole elif [ -f /usr/bin/terminator ];then terminator -T "$title" -x bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo terminator elif [ -f /usr/bin/gnome-terminal ];then gnome-terminal --title "$title" -x bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo gnome-terminal elif [ -f /usr/bin/qterminal ];then qterminal -e bash <(echo "$commands") & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo qterminal elif [ -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ];then $(readlink -f /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator) -e bash -c "$commands" & [ $DEBUG == 1 ] && echo x-terminal-emulator else echo "Failed to locate any terminal emulators!!!" exit 1 fi #A terminal should now be launching and in a few seconds the pid file should appear if [ ! -z "$temp_pid_file" ];then #echo "Waitng for terminal to close..." #wait until pid file exists and give up in 5 seconds attempts=0 while [ ! -f "$temp_pid_file" ];do if [ "$attempts" -gt 5 ];then error "terminal-run: No terminal detected as it never created the pid file within 5 seconds." fi sleep 1 attempts=$((attempts + 1)) done #pid file now exists terminalrun_pid="$(cat "$temp_pid_file")" #now, wait until the pid stops (terminal closes) while [ -d /proc/${terminalrun_pid} ];do sleep 1 done rm -f "$temp_pid_file" fi