Looking up how modkey+x is handled could give some pointers. It also spawns a quick and executes Lia code entered.
Regards Mohan Sundaram Sent from my mobile, please pardon typos On Apr 24, 2014 8:07 PM, "Mohan Sundaram" <[email protected]> wrote: > The commandline that is used in the awful.util.spawn_with_shell can be > used directly to be executed on picking the menu entry. > > The menu entries are all built that way. If you are more specific and can > publish the full text of the call, maybe the answer can be more specific. > > Regards > Mohan Sundaram > Sent from my mobile, please pardon typos > On Apr 24, 2014 7:01 PM, "Robert Sharp" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am new to Awesome - giving it a go to see if it can improve my working >> desktop. I can see it is going to take some effort but it looks like it >> might be rewarding. >> >> I am looking to start a bunch of windows that ssh into each of my PCs for >> system admin. I wrote a simple lua function using >> awful.util.spawn_with_shell and then thought I could just call the function >> from a menu entry. Nothing happened. I then read further into awful.menu >> and found that it expected a string, presumably to execute itself. So is >> there no way to execute a bit of lua from a menu? If not, is there any >> other way to execute lua script on demand? >> >> Thanks, >> Robert >> >
