Re: Running Gtk application in new terminal

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 17:59:15 +0100
Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:08:07 +0000
> "Mazer, Alan S (389M)" <Alan S Mazer jpl nasa gov> wrote:
> > Here you go.  This code implements a simple command processor, one
> > command of which starts up a gtk app.  I tried it with an app of
> > mine called "ngdcs" and it works.  You might want to read up on
> > fork and exec ("man fork", "man execv") but this does work for me:
>
> Since the OP is using GTK+, it seems more logical to use
> g_spawn_async() or g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), the latter of which
> will also set up pipes for stdin, stdout and stderr for you.  (And
> they are also cross-platform.)
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.40/glib-Spawning-Processes.html

And I now see that this is the gtkmm and not gtk mailing list.  In
which case there is:

https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/stable/group__Spawn.html

Chris