i'm not sure if this is a bug with the new FvwmButtons or me doing
something stupid, but it seems that if an Exec has parentheses in it, it
doesn't get Exec'd. For instance, in 2.0.41, i had the following line
in my .fvwm2rc to swallow xdaliclock:
*FvwmButtons(2x1) - whatever Swallow "XDaliClock"
Exec (sleep 20; nice /afs/isu/rental/kerplunk/bin/_at_sys/xdaliclock
-noseconds -fn "-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -fg
gray63 -bg SteelBlue4 -bw 0 -geometry 130x50-1500-1500) &
(all on one line of, course, i just wrapped for clarity) and it worked
just fine. slept for 20 seconds, then fired up xdaliclock. however, in
2.0.42, the following line does nothing:
*FvwmButtons(2x1 Swallow(NoClose UseOld) "XDaliClock" 'Exec (sleep 20;
nice /afs/isu/rental/kerplunk/bin/_at_sys/xdaliclock -noseconds -fn
"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -fg gray63 -bg
SteelBlue4 -bw 0 -geometry 130x50-1500-1500) &' )
(again, wrapped for clarity) but if i take out the "(sleep 20;" and the
corresponding ")", it works fine...
--chris.
--
chris rode - crode_at_iastate.edu -- Help Room Consultant
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crode/ -- 138 Durham Center, 294-1314
"why don't we just have a stupidity depeche mode, erasure, moby, new order,
tax? just tax the stupid people!" pet shop boys and recoil rock my world.
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_hpc.uh.edu.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_hpc.uh.edu.
Received on Tue Apr 16 1996 - 11:46:40 BST