Re: FVWM: editing menus

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:11:39 +0100

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:18:09PM +0100, Robert Land wrote:
> To launch rather simple and quick emacs, xterm, lynx
> and calctool I edited /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc
> in this manner:
 
> Key F6 A M lynx #<-------edited
                      ^^^^
> + "Alt-F6: lynx" lynx & #<-------edited
                                       ^^^^^^

This is wrong. You need "exec lynx &". You can not simply put
shell commands in a menu, they must be prefixed with the "exec"
fvwm command.

> + "Alt-F12: emacs -nw" exec emacs -nw & #<-------edited

Check for some error message in the X console. Is the PATH set
correctly?

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Dec 12 2002 - 07:11:55 GMT

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