title: Starting a new bash shell from a bash shell
body: <p>I would like to run a program from the bash shell. When the program runs, it dominates the entire shell, so I would like to start a new shell and run the program from there. Currently I am doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gnome-terminal -x "cd Dropbox; program_name"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However that give me the error Failed to execute the child process, no such file or directory. I believe thats because the new terminal has no time to initialize. How can I fix this?  </p>