[Simon]

OK, I am having great fun with the new Apple X11 0.2 beta. There's just one thing that makes me go bananas.

I have countless remote login aliases like

% cat .zshrc
alias lab="ssh simon@lab_server.gov -XC"

because I'm too lazy to type it all. Now to run such commands from the application menu in X11 I would need the ability of doing two commands one after the other, because ssh needs a terminal to work in - even if I don't have one opened when I select the menu entry.

I wanted to do a menu enty like
xterm; lab
which would open a terminal and then do the lab which is aliased to the ssh login.

In the OS X terminal or in other UNIXes doind two commands on one line is done with a ;

I wanted to do this in Apple's X11 but it didn't work. Does anybody here have an idea why it doesn't and what I could co to get it to work?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Tritium]

You might want to give:

xterm -e ssh yadda yadda

a shot.

[yusung]

I have found that the easiest way to do this is to create executable shell scripts in my ~/bin directory which I then place in the application menu. This makes them easier to edit and allows me to not worry about their possible loss during upgrades of X11.app.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Tritium:
You might want to give:

xterm -e ssh yadda yadda

a shot.

Thanks a million. Worked perfectly.