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Asked: 2026-06-08T07:07:41+00:00

Same situation as my other question: Python: Start new command prompt on Windows and

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Same situation as my other question: Python: Start new command prompt on Windows and wait for it finish/exit except that I need it to work on Linux.

If you don’t feel like reading the other question: I want to open some new terminal windows and have each execute a command, and I want the parent python program to wait until all the terminal windows are closed.

Doing:

os.system("gnome-terminal -e {command}")

Opens a new terminal window but the program doesn’t wait. Using p = Popen() and p.wait() doesn’t work because the gnome-terminal command completes instantly.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Gnome-terminal reuses the same parent process for all terminal windows.

    Use gnome-terminal --disable-factory to force it to start a new process.

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