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I am trying to open a new terminal window, run Blender and be able to pass it some arguments so that I can commence background rendering and be able to see the progress of this render in the newly created terminal.

I'm currently using os.system to open a Command Prompt, which is the Windows specific part. The advantage of opening a command prompt over using something like subprocess.call is that it is a) Non-blocking, b) Shows feedback from Blender on the progress of the render, c) Allows the render to be cancelled by simply closing the Command Prompt window and d) Doesn't require Blender to be open during rendering (aside from starting the render).

I have this working on Windows and I know how to get it to work on Linux (though I haven't yet updated the add-on) with:

command = 'xterm -e ' + bpy.app.binary_path + ' -b ' + PathToBlend + ' -a'
os.system(command)

But, what I can't seem to do is work out how to get it to work on Mac OSX. This works:

command = 'open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app ' + bpy.app.binary_path'
os.system(command)

It opens a Terminal and runs Blender, but I don't know how to pass additional arguments to Blender. If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.

Update

An untested 'Linux and OSX Support' branch now exists thanks to the contributions from antoniochiurla. I still intend to make my own attempt at OSX and Linux support in the main branch at some point.