"Michael Brown" <[email protected]> writes:
> Seems the problem has something to do with xsetroot's whitespace
> handling...
Then it's probably working like bourne shell. Observe:
$ argcount () { echo $#; }
$ argcount 1 2 3
3
$ argcount "1 2 3"
1
$ argcount $(echo 1 2 3)
3
$ argcount "$(echo 1 2 3)"
1
$
So,
xsetroot -name $(echo 1 2 3)
is different than
xsetroot -name "$(echo 1 2 3)"
You need to figure out how to get rc to take the output of your status
script and pass it in as a single argument to xsetroot. Anselm's
suggestion appears to do precisely this.
Passing around arguments which contain whitespace is one of the trickier
aspects of shell programming. "$@" is the bourne shell hacker's friend.
Neale
