On 27-Jun-2002 Martin Rowe wrote:
> On Thursday 27 June 2002 2:26 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, KMV Dev wrote:
>> > But when I put this command in bb menu, it does not
>> > launch wine at all, even if I specify the full path
>> > to wine.
>>
>> What does your menu entry look like?
>>
>> Jeremy C. Reed
>
> Not that the question was directed to me, but this
>
> [exec] (TS400a) {xrdb -merge ~/.netshare1 && xt5250 Netshare400}
>
> stopped working in the alpha series[1] and still doesn't in beta1 (from
> last night). It works in 0.62 fine. It's the only command that doesn't
> seem to work in my menus that I can tell. I set up a bash script with a
> couple of arguments and invoke that instead which gets round it. It
> doesn't seem to like the && anymore, as {aterm && aterm} only launches a
> single aterm window. Don't know what other combinations are likewise
> affected.
>
choose your bug here (-: by allowing things like && to work we had complaints
of ps showing:
sh -c app
app
the fix was to add 'exec' to each shell invocation. Personally I would rather
see a pretty ps list than handle arbitrary shell commands.
