Panel can't do shell expansion?

[KUTYLA Peggy]

Le mardi 15 février 2005 à 08:03 -0800, David Olbersen a écrit :
> On Feb 15, 2005, at 7:54 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 7:34am, David Olbersen wrote:
> >
> > :How can I get a panel item with Command = "xterm `xtermbg`" to do The
> > :Right Thing?
> >
> > Would "xterm -e xtermbg" have the same effect?
> 
> No. I must not have been clear about the intent. xtermbg prints out 
> command-line arguments to xterm, for example "-fg black -bg blue".
> 
> Using a regular shell, typing:
>    > xterm `xtermbg`
> 
> Results in `xtermbg` being executed (let's say it returns '-fg black 
> -bg blue') and then xterm being run with the -fg black and -bg blue 
> options. Get it?
> 
>    > xterm `xtermbg`
>         (xtermbg is expanded into '-fg black -bg blue')
>      xterm -fg black -bg blue is executed
> 
> The whole point of my little xtermbg program is to pick these arguments 
> at random. Doing 'xterm -e xtermbg' would spawn an xterm which would 
> run xtermbg, which would print out some text, and then exit. That gets 
> me nowhere.

Hi,

and something like sh -c 'xterm `xtermbg`'

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