[openbox] Setting an environment var in menu.xml?

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 roland at steeltorch.com wrote:

> Hello, I'm trying to get this to work:
> 
>   <item label="here">
>     <action name="Execute"><execute>DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/.distcc sudo
> distccmon-gnome</execute></action>
>   </item>
> 
> But it won't execute.  That works fine if I do it on my command prompt.
> I see this on my console window when I try to do run the command via
> openbox's menu:
> 
> (openbox3:2238): Openbox-WARNING **: failed to execute
> 'DISTCC_DIR="/var/tmp/.distcc" sudo distccmon-gnome': Failed to execute
> child process "DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/.distcc" (No such file or directory)
> 
> Any suggestions for me?
> -rgm
> 

you want <execute>sh -c 'YOURVAR=foo command blefargs'</execute> or 
something like that

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Mikael Magnusson