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[Yoshi65]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if you could have it so when you go and click on a program in linux it always automatically brings up the command line for the information being displayed or if I decided to use ncurses for an interface. If so is this a system specific call or can you do this with ncurses? Because half of my programm is going to be via terminal.

Thanks

[Galik]

The 'command line' is one of a number of terminal emulator programs that you might want to use. I think the thing to do is launch the terminal emulator passing it the name of your program to run on startup. So if you were to use the gnome-terminal you could create a desktop launcher with the command gnome-terminal -e /path/to/myprog.