xfce4 problems with Launcher command

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 22:02:02 -0400
"Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 1.  With xfce 3 I use the command line 
> 
> winex -- ~/pathtoprogram/program.exe -- commandstoprogram
> 
> to start it.  Works without a problem.  Under xfce 4 I have to
> substitute /home/myhomedir for the ~ symbol.  It looks like xfce 4
> doesn't understand the ~ in the command line.
> 

XFce3 uses /bin/sh to run the command, xfce4 executes it directly, so it
doesn't expand '~'. 


> 2.  Once I got the program started under xfce 4 the keyboard doesn't
> work.   With xfce 3 the game starts in console mode.  I hit the ~ key
> to get rid of the console and expose the menus.  In xfce 4 this does
> not work.  I have to kill the program.
> 
> Am I missing something or is this broken?
> 

I have no idea why this would happen. You could try using this instead:
  /bin/sh -c "<commandline>"


	Jasper