Hello. I'm directed here from the Eterm homepage.

Suppose you start Eterm with

Eterm -t MyTheme -p /home/pauljohn/pictures1

Inside the theme.cfg file, I want to access the value of the path variable and choose randomly among those files. I'm confounded because the Eterm seems to take the command line argument and throw it on the end of the variable rs_path, so I can't figure how to recover that value inside the theme.

It is possible to randomly choose a file from a known directory*, but I don't know how to do it from the command line directory.


*Example: this snip from theme.cfg shows how to randomly select a subdirectory from /home/pauljohn/Termpics, and then grabs an image out of there:


path "./pix/:~/.Eterm/:~/.Eterm/themes/Eterm/pix:~/.Eterm/pix/:/usr/local/share/Termpics/babes/:/usr/share/Eterm/pix"
begin image
type background
state normal
%put(portpath %random(`ls -d /home/pauljohn/Termpics/*`))
file %random( `find %get(portpath) -name *.jpg`)




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