Question

Is there a way to bring up Eclipse on xterm in Sun Solaris. I tried to execute the ./eclipse command, but it does not bring up eclipse.

Update:

The DISPLAY is set. Please find the details below.

% echo $DISPLAY
169.52.56.88:0.0
% echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_14/
% which java
/usr/jdk/jdk1.5.0_14/bin/java
% cd ~schoudha
:/home/schoudha> cd eclipse
:/home/schoudha/eclipse> ./eclipse &
[1] 23699
:/home/schoudha/eclipse> bg %1
[1] + ./eclipse &
[1] + Exit 15 ./eclipse

ps -ef | grep spantul1
spantul1 19475 19295 0 00:57:38 pts/101 0:00 -csh
spantul1 19295 15910 0 00:57:29 ? 0:00 /usr/openwin/bin/xterm -ls -sl 200 -display 169.52.56.88:0.0
spantul1 24041 19475 0 00:59:59 pts/101 0:01 ps -ef
spantul1 24042 19475 0 00:59:59 pts/101 0:00 grep spantul1

Answer 1

As long as you are in the eclipse folder, ./eclipse should run it, however, you will probably want to detach it from the terminal instance, so:

./eclipse &
bg %1 # assuming it's the only job running.
disown eclipse

Should give you a running instance and free up the terminal session.

If you are not in the eclipse folder, best thing to do is add it to the $PATH and then you can run if from anywhere.