I really want to make a bashrc function that I can call from the Gnome Terminal that will cd into a directory, then enter a distrobox container, then enter a conda environment, then launch a python script. (doing AI stuff and have many coexisting dependencies), I want a function because I would like to pass arguments to alter all 3 levels.
The distrobox “-- commands” doesn’t seem to work for this. Like these commands do not launch inside the terminal that called distrobox. I need the output of these commands in the original terminal, and I need the visual confirmation that each command has run correctly like the conda (env)user$ I typically get for running conda activate and the PS1 changes I have setup for each distrobox container. How can I run a bash function/script that emulates the behavior of the Gnome Terminal when a user enters each of these commands sequentially?
I started looking into this a few days ago but got nowhere. I think you are right about the pseudo terminal. I was thinking there must be a way to capture the ID of the original terminal and pass the distrobox commands back to it. Maybe it would be possible by passing the distrobox container a variable at launch and making that variable a named pipe, but like, I barely know named pipes are a thing and didn’t manage to get it working using a script or function call in the distroboxrc file. I tried making a bunch of different things in this file, like making a startup loop to launch stuff, but none of them worked either.