Starting application in same window with XFCE4 Terminal and i3

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Published on 2013-10-19T02:42:28Z Indexed on 2013/10/19 4:11 UTC
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Since recently I'm enjoying the i3 tiled window manager. I did install the XFCE4 Terminal since it gives greater control over my terminal look and feel however but I have noticed an issue with starting GUI based applications.

When I execute a GUI based application I want it take over the current terminal window. To do this I use exec, as in:

exec eclipse

This will open a new window and leave the terminal I started the application in open as well. In normal circumstances this is not much of a problem since I can easily do an Alt-W on the GUI app's window.

However, for some applications, like a file manager, it is necessary to open in the same window.

How can I make GUI application open in the same window rather than opening a new one?

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