ah, so in .xinitrc maybe? exec awesome &> awesome_err.txt
________________________________ From: Rena <[email protected]> To: Scott Kinney <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 10:39 AM Subject: Re: run a command from menu item On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Scott Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: awesome! >i've got so much to learn! > > >so if i put that in my rc.lua and start awesome like.. >startx &> awesome_err.txt > > >kinda like that? > > > >________________________________ > From: Rena <[email protected]> >To: Scott Kinney <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 10:19 AM > >Subject: Re: run a command from menu item > > > >On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Scott Kinney <[email protected]> wrote: > >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. >> >> > >What I've done to capture output from commands is: >local cmd = param.command .. > ([[ 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do ]] .. > [[echo "[$(date '+%y%m%d %H%M%S') CMD] $line"; done & ]]):gsub( > 'CMD', param.command) > >os.execute(cmd) > > >That redirects the command's stdout and stderr to Awesome's stdout (and >prefixes each line with a timestamp and the command). I then use a shell >script to launch Awesome and redirect its stdout to a log file so I can see it >all. > > >-- >Sent from my Game Boy. > > I think you'd have to redirect Awesome itself, not just the startx command. -- Sent from my Game Boy.
