[openbox] Fwd: using backquotes on rc.xml

Nicolás Reynolds fauno at zenbe.com
Sat Sep 27 22:34:02 EDT 2008


On 09/27/2008 "Mikael Magnusson" <lists at bak.och.fr.am> wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Nicolï¿œs Reynolds wrote:
> 
> > re-sending... i receive your mails but i can't send because i'm suscribed?
> 
> not subscribed? yes, that is probably why. I just accidentally sent my 
> reply from the wrong address due to an alpine bug and it seems to be 
> similarly swallowed.


 
> > I tried with html entities but still the same. is it possible?
> 
> This is for the same reason that you can't write python or C code in the 
> execute action, openbox is a window manager, not a shell. If you want to 
> use scripts, you have to execute the appropriate interpreter yourself, for 
> example:
> 
> <command>sh -c 'my command using `echo backticks`'</command>
> 

hehe... thanks!



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