Thanks both of you. On 2012/01/16 19:07, David Coppa wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > Anyone have ideas why rxvt -e / urxvt -e close the new window immediately? > > > > $ rxvt -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > $ urxvt -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > $ xterm -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > > > Can anyone with an rthreads system handy try this and let me know if it's > > any different there please? > > It's the same with rthreads too. > > ciao, > David
On 2012/01/16 13:23, Anders Langworthy wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 07:07:51PM +0100, David Coppa wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > > wrote: > > > Anyone have ideas why rxvt -e / urxvt -e close the new window immediately? > > > > > > $ rxvt -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > > $ urxvt -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > > $ xterm -e "echo hi;sleep 2" > > > > > > Can anyone with an rthreads system handy try this and let me know if it's > > > any different there please? > > > > It's the same with rthreads too. > > this works: > > urxvt -e ksh -c "echo hi; sleep 2"