Re: Running Gtk application in new terminal

[Alan Mazer <alan s mazer jpl nasa gov>]

On 6/5/2014 12:20 AM, Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Quoth Abhinav singh:
> > I am running a gtk application from another program lets call it "main
> > program". This program is command driven and proceed according to
> > command given to it. What my problem is when the command which runs my
> > gtk application is given into "main program" the terminal gets hang up
> > till the application window is closed then only my "main program" is
> > able to process further command given to it.
> >
> > Is there any way to run my gtk application in entire new terminal or
> > without terminal associated with it so that my "main program" will be
> > able to process the next command in the list with gtk application
> > running in parallel?
> It sounds like you're asking how to run a GTK app from a shell script
> without waiting for it to end.
>
> You do that just like you'd do it for anything else -- you run it as a
> background task (usually by adding & at the end of your command line).


Sounds like a place for fork/exec.  Your main app forks then execs the 
gtk app.  I'm assuming this is running in a *nix environment, although 
there are similar constructs on Windows.