About 18 months ago you guys helped me with an KDE3 app I developed where I needed to execute and capture the output of bash init scripts: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=120488838806612&w=2 Now I have updated it to KDE4 and currently have an embedded konsole part using code copied from the kateconsole plugin. What I have working is a shell made by "TerminalInterface::showShellInDir()" and I send it commands with the "sendInput()" method. This works but I don't want the user to have access to the shell prompt, what I need is a read-only shell that only displays the output of the commands. I tried "startProgram( "/bin/sh", script )" but then the widget just closes. Anybody know the trick to this? I know KDevelop has something like this but doesn't seem to use the TerminalInterface when I searched. TIA -Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.