Terminal special colors, etc

Alexander Toresson alexander.toresson at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 08:27:38 CET 2006


On 11/16/06, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:
> With Terminal there are no such options, but there is the environment
> variable, XDG_CONFIG_HOME.  So I created a new directory,
> ~/.configroot, and the launcher command
>     export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/dad/.configroot; Terminal -x /bin/su -
>
> That didn't work.  Apparently, compound commands aren't acceptable.

Well, rather, xfce4-panel doesn't fire up a full shell just to execute
your command. You could do the following, though:

bash -c "export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/dad/.configroot; Terminal -x /bin/su -"

Regards, Alexander Toresson



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