Re: FVWM: Screenshot done from MenuItem

From: Ben Winslow <rain_at_bluecherry.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:17:55 -0500

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 14:06, calmar wrote:
> Anyway, when I want to put about the same into a Menu, it
> obviously does not work at all then. P.e:
>
> DestroyMenu testmenu
> AddToMenu testmenu
> + "screenshot" Exec exec sleep 3 && import -window root ~/pics/screenshots/sc-`date +%F-%H-%M-%S`.jpg
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^
Your doubled exec causes fvwm to pass 'exec sleep 3' to the shell.
'exec' in a shell replaces the shell task with the new one, so the shell
goes away after running sleep.

-- 
Ben Winslow <rain_at_bluecherry.net>



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