wow, embarassing. i need to slow down. both worked, thank you very much!
when i run the script that changes the background (it's just feh --bg-tile /bla/bal.jpg) i get the wristwatch mouse pointer for 15 sec or so. seems weird. are these commands executed in another shell instance? if so, is there a way to see that shell's activity and error messages (if any)? thanks for the help ________________________________ From: Rena <[email protected]> To: Scott Kinney <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 9:53 AM Subject: Re: run a command from menu item On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Scott Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: i want to assign terminal commands to menu items but i'm not getting it. > > >i assign commands to variable like... >local commands = {} >commands.mail = "chromium http://gmail.com"; > >commands.suspend = "systemclt suspend" >commands.background = "~/bin/add.sh" > > >then put it in the menu like... > > > { "background", commands.background }, > > > >mail works but suspend and the bash script do not > > >or does > > >commands. background = "feh --bg-tile ~/background.png" > > >what am i missing? > > >also, if they commands dont run how do i see the error they produce? > > I suspect suspend doesn't work because you've misspelled it (clt => ctl), and background doesn't work because tilde expansion doesn't work outside of an actual shell; you need to write out the full path to the script (and make sure it's marked executable). -- Sent from my Game Boy.
