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in reply to Re^2: Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended
in thread Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended

using a sleep() would be useless

I just put the sleep in there for testing purposes, i.e. to emulate a script doing something that takes time... (if the script doesn't do anything, the terminal would of course also close immediately)

I still wonder what's happening in your case.  The "normal" thing for a terminal would be to wait until the command it runs has finished...

What happens on your system when you try 

for (1..3) {
    system("gnome-terminal -e 'sleep 2'");
}

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Re^4: Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended
by renegadex (Beadle) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:15 UTC
    For demonstration, try this... I'm having trouble explaining my situation hehehehe
    # myscript.pl #
# script must be run in a terminal #
use Gtk2 '-init';
my $window = Gtk2::Window->new();
$window->signal_connect( destroy => sub { exit } );
my $button = Gtk2::Button->new("click me to close");
$button->signal_connect('clicked'=> sub { exit } );
$window->add($button);
$window->show_all();
Gtk2->main;

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    next is the main code
    # main.pl #
my $k = 0;
while($k < 3){
    system("gnome-terminal -e 'perl myscript.pl'");
    $k++;
}

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    if i ran main.pl it call the script 3x then ends... yet the first myscript.pl has not yet finished running... it waits for you to press the button... what i wanted to do is... open the 1st myscript.pl then wait for somebody to press it... then if somebody presses it, another myscript.pl would run again.. then so on..
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      Works for me as expected, i.e. the program waits util I click the close button in your GUI, then the next instance (of terminal and GUI) is started...   (in this particular case, a terminal wouldn't even be required)

      Do you in fact get three instances of the GUI running at the same time?

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Re^4: Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended
by renegadex (Beadle) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:08 UTC
    i cant see my post... sorry... i reposted another one below.. which i cant see either!
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