On 13-09-2007 21:33, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In config.arg.h and config.default.h , dmenu is run like this : > exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && exec $exe > > This doesn't work for commands with arguments, eg "xterm -e top" or "import > -w root root.png" or whatever. > > But running dmenu like this works fine (thanks to rob__ on #dwm for that hint > ;) : > exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu` && eval "exec $exe" > > Does it have any downsides? If not, maybe it could be done in both config.h > examples. > actually for me on FreeBSD that didn't work at all (with arguments or not)
so i replaced the whole command with the (IMHO) simpler: "exec `dmenu_path | dmenu`" hope that helps.. -- Panagiotis (Panos) Paganis (aka Mallinanga) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG/PGP Key-ID: 0xC590FF74 http://www.mallinanga.de/pubkey.asc FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7
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