Open a konsole

Hello,

I was like trying to do this but i could able to achieve. Perhaps I know that there is solution which I couldn't able to find. What I am after is, when I click on a button, I want a console opening up and start executing a exe file which I give. So for example, if I say something like

Code:

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system("konsole <exe filename>");

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So console is a command which opens up a new console and in that console I want the binary to be executed. Well I could have used exec family function to run the exe file. But the problem is that I need some values reading in from user. So if that was on a new console, obviously the console will prompt the user to enter some value.

It is something like, when user press Alt+F10 on Dev-C++ the program gets compiled and opens a console and runs that binary within that console (Assuming that program compiled with errors and warnings).

How can we do this in Linux. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance.

ssharish

Read the man page for konsole.

Code:

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system("konsole -e <exe filename>");

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Hey Brewbuck thanks a lot. That worked. That was pretty simple. I tried running this on my local Linux machine it dint work. But surprisingly it worked on uni machine. What i found was that i dint had -e flag displayed in the manual page on my local machine. May be i might be using the older version :-/

Anyway thanks once again.

ssharish