in reply to create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT

I'm not a Konsole kind of guy, but this should spawn a script in an Xterm:

system("xterm -e $command");

After your 'system' failed, did you check $! for error details?

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Re^2: create a new (Linux) console and redir. STDIN & STDOUT
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2002 at 16:51 UTC
    The sane hacker will, of course, avoid shell and so prefer system "xterm", -e => $command; :-)

    Makeshifts last the longest.