TSE: Linux: Start TSE without terminal menu

[Guy Rouillier]

I am running Linux (Ubuntu MATE) full time now, since my favorite Windows
version - 7 - is so old that a bunch of stuff no longer works, and I don't
like Windows 11. I do run Windows 11 - unactivated and hence no cost - in a
VirtualBox VM within Linux so I can test various things in Windows, like TSE
for Windows.

I spend a lot of time in terminals, and by default I leave the menubar showing
as I occasionally use it. That doesn't work well with TSE Linux; instead of
alt-f bringing up the TSE File menu, it brings up the terminal File menu. I
can of course use escape-F, but that wastes my 30+ years of TSE muscle memory.

I found a workable solution. I use mainly mate-terminal, but I also tried
gnome-terminal in a Rocky Linux VM that I use to test compatibility in a
Redhat distro. Both of these have a --hide_menubar option to hide the
terminal menu bar; that allows the alt-f to get to the TSE File menu. The
following commands will open a new window with the menu bar hidden, and load
the supplied file name in TSE:

Ubuntu: mate-terminal --hide-menubar -- e filename.txt

Redhat: gnome-terminal --hide-menubar -- e filename.txt

The "-- e" invokes the TSE e binary inside the new terminal, passing it the
filename.txt argument.

I created a simple shell script so I can simply type "tse filename.txt" in
either Ubuntu or Redhat:

===
#!/usr/bin/bash
mate-terminal --hide-menubar -- e $1
===

Hope this helps someone.

--
Guy Rouillier

[S.E. Mitchell]

Thanks for sharing this Guy - very useful information!

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