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terminal commands on startup

denten
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I am trying to run freetalk in the terminal on startup (expecting a terminal window to remain open, running freetalk). First I tried:

exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 2; exec freetalk

That does not work. I am now trying something like:

exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 2; exec i3-sensible-terminal'

But I don't know how to further pass commands into the terminal.

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aorith
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try

exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 2; exec xterm -e freetalk

and if you want that the terminal stays when you close that program add:

exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 2; exec xterm -e freetalk; bash

Asked: 2014-07-25 01:26:39 +0000

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Last updated: Jul 25 '14