Instructions for setting ddterm as external terminal (for apps like VSCode)

[jacksongoode]

Is there an executable command to open and run from ddterm? This could be used as the prefix for editors who might open an external terminal for the user on run.

[amezin]

No, there is no such command. It should not be hard to implement using D-Bus/GAction, but it has to go through the extension first (because ddterm app may not be running, and the app must be started from the extension).

[mrf345]

A while ago i added a method to the dbus interface, the implementation is a bit hacky since it's using a setting to pass the command to the application, but it's been working well so far. I was about to create a PR, but it seems many things have changed since then (rxjs introduced), so most of what's there need to be updated, unfortunately, I don't have the time to do that, in case someone else is interested https://github.com/mrf345/gnome-shell-extension-ddterm/commit/417ce69cee40220396ed9b265570f0f8a120fb8c

example: gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/ddterm --method com.github.amezin.ddterm.Extension.RunCommand /your/shell/script/path.sh

[amezin]

Now you can create tabs from the command line - for example: ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/com.github.amezin.ddterm --wait -- nano somefile.txt