On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Timothy Groves wrote:
> Okay, I've RTFM, and it doesn't address this question: How exactly does one run a shell script from an FVWM exec command?
I have a script called opendir that looks like this:
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#!/bin/sh
# this script opens a directory in a file manager
# check if user has set $FILEMAN
if [ -n "$FILEMAN" ]; then
`$FILEMAN` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
elif which rox > /dev/null 2>&1; then
rox $* >/dev/null 2>&1
elif [ `which gmc` ]; then
gmc $* >/dev/null 2>&1
# last resort, use good ol' xfm... :-)
else
xfm $* >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
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Then I use it like this in .fvwm2rc:
AddToMenu RootMenu "Root Menu" Title
+ "New Window" Exec exec terminal
+ "Home Directory" Exec $HOME/.fvwm/opendir ~
This has always worked.
Maybe it's because of the " >/dev/null 2>&1 " ?
//Marcus
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Received on Sun Mar 16 2003 - 03:18:05 GMT