Debian Developers - Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal

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Bug#389932: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal

Philipp Benner

2006-09-29, 7:30 am

> Thanks for the hint to the -hold feature but it seems to work only
> for real xterm. So I have probably several possibilities:
>
> 1. Make gnumed-client dependant from xterm (which seems be
> useless for most of the cases.
> 2. Make a separate package gnumed-client debug which
> depends from xterm and contains not much more than
> the menu entry and this dependency.
> 3. File bugs against all packages that provide
> x-terminal-emulator but do not show the -hold feature
> (would this be reasonable)
> 4. ???
>
> What would you think would be a reasonable solution?
>
Maybe this is what you are looking for:
x-terminal-emulator -e 'gnumed --debug; echo "[press enter to quit]"; read'

It's not a smart solution but it works.

Regards

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Philipp Benner