James and Ed - Thanks.That's what I needed. - JMM On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Ed Cashin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:57 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote: >> How about: >> >> `xterm -e 'xeyes && bash'` > > Or with a semicolon instead of "&&" if you want the shell > prompt to appear whether the app exits with a success > status or not.