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[Aleksandar Jovanov <ajovanov93@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/03/2013 02:54 PM, Daniel Holm wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> How does the terminal application work for Ubuntu Touch?
>
> I've looked trough the code, but I'm interested how the commands work. 
> Both the sending, and receiving of the output.
>
> I've seen kterm and some kind of kde library loaded and I suppose 
> thats it, but couldn't this also be used to run system commands in the 
> background too?
>
> I've earlier asked how to run system commands from inside an QML app. 
> But since I don't know C++, nor do I care to learn it, I'm looking for 
> other ways.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Daniel
QML runtime is pretty limited, so you have two choices if you want to 
start a background proceses:

 * Learn C++ and implement a wrapper around the system function or QProcess
 * Wait for someone else to create it for you.