[X2Go-User] How to run a script that needs a terminal initially but is then a GUI (as a single application)?

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 15:56:56 +0000, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
wrote:
> I have a short script on the server system which first runs encfs
> to create a file system and it then runs a GUI that uses the file
> system just created.  How can I run this as a 'Single application' in
> x2go?
> 
> The script is called 'digimax', I have tried running a terminal as the
> single application by putting the following command into x2go:-
> 
>     xfce4-terminal -x /home/chris/bin/digimax
> 
> This successfully asks for the encfs password in the terminal window
> that appears but it then just disappears and no GUI app follows.
> The script /home/chris/bin/digimax works perfectly when run locally in
> a terminal window.

Does it work when you launch xfce4-terminal in single-application mode
and then try running /home/chris/bin/digimax?  Does that work?  If not,
then any error message that is displayed may be instructive.

Regards,
Tristan

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