tdelibs/tdeinit/README.wrapper

README

tdeinit_wrapper, kshell and kwrapper are a programs that
start programs via tdeinit.

E.g. You can make a symbolic link from $TDEDIR/bin/konsole to 
$TDEDIR/bin/tdeinit_wrapper. Typing 'konsole' on the command line 
will then start 'konsole.la' through tdeinit instead.

tdeinit_wrapper is the simplest for, it only passes the program
and arguments to tdeinit, nothing else

kshell is usually the best choice, it passes the program,
arguments, complete environment ( $PATH, etc. ) and current
working directory to tdeinit

kwrapper tries to make the program look like it was actually
really started directly and not via tdeinit. In addition to
what kshell does, it also tries to redirect the program
output to the console from which kwrapper was started, it waits
for the program started via tdeinit to finish and only after then
it exits ( it doesn't return its return value though ), and
it also passes most signals it gets to the process of the started
program ( thus allowing you to break it using Ctrl+C or stopping
it using Ctrl+Z ). The drawbacks of this are that you'll have one
more process running, and also the signal passing and output
redirection may not work 100% reliably


TODO
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* There is no portable way to read out the complete environment and
  pass it to tdeinit. - tdeinit should probably unset every
  variable that's not set in the environment it gets from kshell or
  kwrapper
* stdout/stderr of the started application goes to the console where
  tdeinit was started. - done, I hope it's ok