Hi Andreas, Ah yes, I see. The current limitation is that the "%d" needs to be an argument of it's own. Arguably you could consider that a bug or at least unexpected behavior.
Does gnome-terminal allow you to do "gnome-terminal --working-dir %s" instead ? Regards, Jaap On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:38 AM, WEHLER Andreas < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jaap. > > # this works: > # zim custom command > gnome-terminal --working-directory=/tmp > > # this does not work (%d is ignored? empty? not expanded?) > # zim custom command > gnome-terminal --working-directory=%d > > > Best regards, > > Andreas > > > > > > On 24.03.2015 09:28, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > What prevents you from define e.g. "xterm %d" as a custom command > (replace "xterm" with your console of choice) ? Also when you need the > script, you should be able to put the full path to the script in the custom > command dialog, e.g "~/bin/StartTerminal.sh" should work just fine. > > > > But maybe I so not understand the problem statement fully? > > > > Jaap > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:31 AM, WEHLER Andreas < > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I'm still looking for a good way to start a terminal as a custom > command > > from within zim. > > > > Until now I have defined a wrapper which must be found within $PATH: > > StartTerminal.sh # see attachment > > > > The setup of the custom command is shown here: > > Snap_01.png # see attachment > > > > This works if zim is started from a shell with PATH being set up > > e.g. in .bashrc and the wrapper is saved as "~/bin/StartTerminal.sh". > > Assume you have no write permission for /usr/local/bin. > > > > So I've created also another launcher just to start zim: > > StartZim.sh # see attachment, saved to ~/bin > > > > And my launcher looks like: > > Snap_02.png # see attachment, this works > > > > > > Now, the wrappers do a proof of concept, but it is a hassle. > > It's nothing you ever want to show a workmate. > > > > Apparently I miss something with parameter substitution in zim > > custom commands or with quoting? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andreas > > > > > > zim 0.60; Ubuntu 14.04 > > >
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