On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:13:16PM +0100, Tomas Capdevila wrote: > > i think there are several mistakes in your lines: > > --background #4682b4 > > first, aterm does not understand #4682b4 (at least on my machine), > second, this is a nice comment sign you put there, so the rest of the > line will be treated like this, a comment :-) > the line i originally posted works here as a bash alias - it brings up a nice big sky-blue aterm ... i \ escape the # in the alias ... i was trying variations to see what would work. I pasted the alias into my menu and tried several variations on the syntax.
i DO like that the changes are testable 'on the fly' even with vi still open on the menu file; just write out the changes and try 'em out :-) > > vi ~/.blackbox/menu > > i think you should start a xterm/aterm and let them handle the vi, like > in my example with pico above. > point taken, i will do it that way. thanks for the kind advice. aloha, dave
