On 31 Okt, 10:50, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gaurav kashyap wrote: > > I am using Microsoft Windows XP.Using putty.exe,I connected to LINUX > > server and a terminal window gets opened.Here i logeed in as root.
As pointed out already, root privileges should be used with caution, especially if you don't really know what you're doing. > > What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened > > terminal window. > > Ugh. As others said and I already guessed, this has nothing to do with > python. It does, albeit tangentially, if the inquirer is looking for a way of doing this conveniently within a Python program. > While this is totally unrelated to this list I'll help you going > into the right direction (but you need to walk yourself): > > http://x.cygwin.com/ > > Basically you would install the x window system and some shell > tools (including openssh client) and then log into the > remote box and start any x window application, also as many > terminals as you can carry. (especially look out for > x-session forwarding etc.) Agreed. This is the most obvious solution. I imagine that there may be all sorts of alternatives, some based on X, others based on other protocols (RDP, NX, perhaps), but SSH with X is commonplace in the free UNIX world these days, and that pretty much sets the agenda for all the other UNIX flavours as well. > > Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution > > Ah tested. Haha. Yes many people have done it, so its tested. > > If you provide a contract and pay money you should also be able to > get someone to configure the system in the way you want it :-) Indeed. :-) Returning to the Python aspect, however, there probably isn't a convenient way of just opening the "best" console/terminal program, mostly because there isn't really a convenient way of doing so outside Python. The xdg-utils package, which attempts to provide cross-desktop services as a set of programs, doesn't cover the opening of terminal windows, and it's probably a fair amount of work to inspect the environment and inquire about the user's preferred terminal program for all possible desktop environments, assuming that they all expose this information conveniently. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
