[texhax] latexmk error in gnome-terminal

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:16:20 -0800,
jtzzaa11-texhax2 at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to write a script where latexmk will run inside a gnome-terminal.
> 
> Using:
> gnome-terminal -x 'latexmk f.tex' 
> 
> gives a popup window with the error:
> "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal"
> 
> using:
> 
> gnome-terminal -x "ls"
> works fine, so the problem seems to be with latexmk running inside the gnome-terminal.
> 
> any suggestions?

gnome-terminal is trying to execute the command 'latexmk f.tex', not
the command 'latexmk' with the argument f.tex.  Try:

  gnome-terminal -x latexmk f.tex

or

  gnome-terminal -e 'latexmk f.tex'

Neal