Run nodes in tabs of a terminal by roslaunch (e.g. roxterm)

asked 2017-11-28 03:49:25 -0600

Nicolas
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Hi,

we would like to run the processes started by roslaunch in individual tabs of an X-terminal. It's a bit against the concepts of rosout, but this allows to quickly switch between the output of nodes and also allows to interact with them during development.

Some X terminals allow to create a new tab from the shell, using e.g. roxterm --tab. This can be used as a launch prefix. However, roxterm --tab does not wait for the launched process to finish. As a result, roslaunch can no longer control it's child processes, and thinks the node exited directly.

I am thinking about a wrapper for roxterm --tab that behaves as expected by roslaunch. The wrapper must: - Wait for the ROS node ran within the tab and return its exit code - Forward signals to the ROS node - Not register as a ROS node in any way

Is this enough, or is there anything else?

Best Regards!

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can we open mutilple tabs of ros prompts in single terminal window and without maximizing it in small size?

noor ( 2019-12-18 00:54:57 -0600 )edit

You can do this by using the shortcut on the terminal: CTRL + SHIFT + T , if you're asking this by saying 'ros prompt'

ermanas ( 2019-12-18 02:25:38 -0600 )edit

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echo "Launching: roscore" gnome-terminal --window --maximize -x sh -c "roscore; exit" sleep 2 rosparam set /prediction_time 10.0 echo "Launching: stage_and_maps.launch" gnome-terminal --window --maximize -x sh -c "roslaunch stage_and_maps.launch; exit" echo "Waiting 10s left" sleep 10 echo "Launching: prediction.launch" gnome-terminal --tab --maximize -x sh -c "roslaunch prediction.launch; exit"

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