Re: objectifying gnome-terminal

["Tuomas J. Lukka" <lukka fas harvard edu>]

> You may be able to do something like this with the --gtk-module stuff,
> similar to the guile terminal extension.  

Where do I find these and docs on them? 

> The easiest way to do this would
> be to have it open a named pipe at maybe ~/.gnome/terminal-commands.pipe
> and use gdk_input_add to get notified when people write to it.

> Now have some other program that can write to this pipe.

Does this also work remotely? What are the advantages/disadvantages to using
ORBit? Are there ready-made routines in gnome-libs or glib or whatever
for doing these things or should I just use plain unix commands?

	Tuomas

> > Are there / should there be plans to make gnome-terminal an object
> > so that it would be possible to get a new screen in an existing
> > terminal process from the command line or from another program,
> > starting at a specified directory, program &c?
> > 
> > I'm volunteering to do this if someone points me to the right
> > direction and documentation.