Command won't execute in launcher
Jack Kern
jack_kern at operamail.com
Mon May 17 14:39:40 CEST 2004
Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
>On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 08:25:07AM -0400, Jack Kern wrote:
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>>Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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>heh, I assumed it returned because the "arg with spaces" wasn't passed
>properly to the program.
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In either case the output/errors could not be read as xterm would start
and exit -- using xterm with the "-hold" argument would help to clarify
the issues.
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