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  • gaurav kashyap

    #1

    open a new terminal window from another terminal window in linux/unixsystem

    Dear all,

    I am using Microsoft Windows XP.Using putty.exe,I connected to LINUX
    server and a terminal window gets opened.Here i logeed in as root.

    What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened
    terminal window.
    Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution

    Thanks
  • Steve Holden

    #2
    Re: open a new terminal window from another terminal window inlinux/unix system

    gaurav kashyap wrote:
    Dear all,
    >
    I am using Microsoft Windows XP.Using putty.exe,I connected to LINUX
    server and a terminal window gets opened.Here i logeed in as root.
    >
    What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened
    terminal window.
    Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution
    >
    Please stop spamming this list with the same question, and one not
    concerning Python at that. For what it is worth I doubt any solution to
    your problem is readily available, and repeated queries on irrelevant
    lists are unlikely to earn you much positive karma.

    regards
    Steve
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    • Tim Golden

      #3
      Re: open a new terminal window from another terminal window inlinux/unix system

      gaurav kashyap wrote:
      I am using Microsoft Windows XP.Using putty.exe,I connected to LINUX
      server and a terminal window gets opened.Here i logeed in as root.
      >
      What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened
      terminal window.
      Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution

      If you'd posted this description of of the situation about 2 days
      ago, you'd have had a *much* better chance of getting a useful
      answer. I don't think I'd have guessed in a million years that
      this was what you were trying to do!

      In short, there's no command you can type *inside Python*,
      *on a remote box* which will cause Putty or Windows or
      anything on your local PC to open another Window. I'd
      be seriously worried if there were!


      TJG

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      • Paul Boddie

        #4
        Re: open a new terminal window from another terminal window inlinux/unix system

        On 31 Okt, 10:50, Tino Wildenhain <t...@wildenhai n.dewrote:
        gaurav kashyap wrote:
        I am using Microsoft Windows XP.Using putty.exe,I connected to LINUX
        server  and a terminal window gets opened.Here i logeed in as root.
        As pointed out already, root privileges should be used with caution,
        especially if you don't really know what you're doing.
        What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened
        terminal window.
        >
        Ugh. As others said and I already guessed, this has nothing to do with
        python.
        It does, albeit tangentially, if the inquirer is looking for a way of
        doing this conveniently within a Python program.
        While this is totally unrelated to this list I'll help you going
        into the right direction (but you need to walk yourself):
        >

        >
        Basically you would install the x window system and some shell
        tools (including openssh client) and then log into the
        remote box and start any x window application, also as many
        terminals as you can carry. (especially look out for
        x-session forwarding etc.)
        Agreed. This is the most obvious solution. I imagine that there may be
        all sorts of alternatives, some based on X, others based on other
        protocols (RDP, NX, perhaps), but SSH with X is commonplace in the
        free UNIX world these days, and that pretty much sets the agenda for
        all the other UNIX flavours as well.
        Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution
        >
        Ah tested. Haha. Yes many people have done it, so its tested.
        >
        If you provide a contract and pay money you should also be able to
        get someone to configure the system in the way you want it :-)
        Indeed. :-)

        Returning to the Python aspect, however, there probably isn't a
        convenient way of just opening the "best" console/terminal program,
        mostly because there isn't really a convenient way of doing so outside
        Python. The xdg-utils package, which attempts to provide cross-desktop
        services as a set of programs, doesn't cover the opening of terminal
        windows, and it's probably a fair amount of work to inspect the
        environment and inquire about the user's preferred terminal program
        for all possible desktop environments, assuming that they all expose
        this information conveniently.

        Paul

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        • Grant Edwards

          #5
          Re: open a new terminal window from another terminal window inlinux/unix system

          On 2008-10-31, gaurav kashyap <gauravkec2005@ gmail.comwrote:
          Can this be achieved. If yes,please provide a tested solution
          Rude much?

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