I have a lot of bash scripts laying around in $HOME/bin. Most of them
work with parameters inside of them like ${1}.

1. These scripts fail if applied with parameters via Alt+F2 in unity.

E.g. 
<[path/]myscript.sh  "[path/]param1"> or 
<[path/]myscript.sh  'param1'> or 
<[path/]myscript.sh  param\ with \ whitespace> or 
<[path/]myscript.sh  "param with  whitespace"> or 
<[path/]myscript.sh  'param with  whitespace'>

2. These commands also don't work when issued within launcher-
quicklinks.

Beside the fact, that pasting clipboard entries with middle mouse click
or Strg+V is not working, this is one of the most annoying facts about
the implementation of Alt+F2.

I hope to see this getting into the focus of you unity guys because
these are essential linux/unix features. Running a parametrised bash
script should be supported with all features with Alt+F2 and unity-
launchers. This forces me again to install programs like gmrun. This
should not be necessary any more with unity.

BTW: thanks for this first version of unity which is really a great
peace of software ;)

Greets Axel

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Title:
  Can't launch command with arguments from ALT-F2 or SUPER menus

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