How to execute program in child terminal window?

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Sorry for not being descriptive in the caption - I dont know how to phrase this.

What I want to do is to run my command line program from bash and in the full terminal window and when i exit it, all output from the program should be cleared. Eg: Functionality of "testdisk". It runs in the full window, but when you exit testdisk, it will return you to the original window.

How can this be done?

Before running app: enter image description here

While running app (same terminal window): enter image description here

After exiting app: enter image description here

@SeanBright - gnome-terminal -e ./myapp opens a new terminal window. I want to execute my app inside the same window. Like i said, testdisk or photorec does it like that. — ravindu1024, Jul 02 '15 at 17:18
Is this an irrelevant question? I'm sorry if it is. Can the downvoter please explain why? — ravindu1024, Jul 02 '15 at 17:19
@SeanBright - i added screenshots to elaborate the question. Could you take a look? Thanks. — ravindu1024, Jul 02 '15 at 17:33
@SeanBright - curses is the way. Thank you. Could you post it as an answer so I can mark you as correct? — ravindu1024, Jul 02 '15 at 17:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '15 at 17:59

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Your example application is using ncurses to draw the window contents. If you require this exact behavior, you will have to modify your application to use ncurses directly for the screen management.

answered Jul 02 '15 at 17:59

Sean Bright

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