Panel can't do shell expansion?

[brettholcomb at charter.net]

That would be hoped for <G>.  However, it doesn't for some reason. I ran into this some time ago.
> 
> From: David Olbersen <dave at toasterwaffles.com>
> Date: 2005/02/15 Tue PM 05:27:26 GMT
> To: XFCE general discussion list <xfce at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: Panel can't do shell expansion?
> 
> On Feb 15, 2005, at 8:10 AM, KUTYLA Peggy wrote:
> 
> > and something like sh -c 'xterm `xtermbg`'
> 
> Well, that works -- but it's ugly since I have a copy of sh hanging 
> around while xterm is running. To take care of that I've made sh exec 
> the command:
> 
>    sh -c 'exec xterm `xtermbg`' -- this ends up replacing sh with xterm
> 
> Am I alone in the expectation that what I type in the Command field of 
> a launcher should work as though it were a shell command?
> 
> -- 
> David Olbersen
> 
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