[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 15:56:35 EDT 2009


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>>  dcarroll wrote:
>> >  Consider this excerpt from one of my pipe menus:
>> > 
>> >  <execute>
>> >  firefox -new-window http://someremotehost/~me/somewebapp/
>> >  et cetera
>> > 
>> >  Does anybody know how to prevent the tilde (~) from being expanded into
>> >  the pathname of my home directory?
>>
>>  Try HTML encoding: /%7Eme/somewebapp/
>
> Please don't give advice without trying it first.

Sorry for being slow, that does work in this specific case of urls, but it 
won't become a tilde in openbox generically.

--
Mikael Magnusson


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