Creating a new window in Terminal.app from unix prompt

[gaitskell]

Does anyone know how to create a new window in the Terminal.app using a unix command line instruction?

Obviously, Cmd-N creates one, but say I want to spawn a new shell process (inheriting current shell properties) with a new window in Terminal.app?

One can use 'xterm &' if you have an XWindows manager going e.g. Exodus.... but in Terminal.app??

Thanks, Rick

 

[spike666]

well you could start a new Terminal process. from the shell, start
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal

the problem, is now you have 2 terminal.app 's running. each window in terminal is NOT a new process as with xterm. its a new thread. so the only way to start a new window is using the cmd N.

now if i could only find a way to get backspace to be a ^h instead of ^? ...

spike

 

[hiendohar]

Try this:

stty erase '^h'

 

[spike666]

stty erase ^h does NOT change the terminal app. it changes the shell to read a ctrl-h as an erase. which is NOT what terminal sends when i hit backspace.

 

[apl175]

I think you're looking for the equivalent of the "xmodmap" command in UNIX....