Command won't execute in launcher

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Mon May 17 14:34:11 CEST 2004


On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:25:07AM -0400, Jack Kern wrote:
> Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> >Btw, this does sound like a bug in xfce to me. If someone (the original
> >poster?) could report it in the bug tracker (bugs.xfce.org) that would
> >be great. Less chance of it getting lost.
> >
> >To get this straight: this is a command that is not supposed to return
> >immediately, isn't it?
> >
> > 
> >
> I assumed in my post it was a command that returned one to the prompt 
> immediately, based on the original poster's description that an xterm 
> flashed on the screen and disappeared.  I don't see how xfce could know 
> that any command would return one to the prompt immediately; so, that 
> xterm would "-hold" until one could read the output.
> 

heh, I assumed it returned because the "arg with spaces" wasn't passed
properly to the program.

> Your request for clarification is a good idea.
> 

Apparently so ;)




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