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

Alexander Futasz acid.punk at gmx.net
Fri Oct 3 18:50:18 EDT 2003


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:07:37 +0200 (CEST), Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> you want <execute>sh -c 'YOURVAR=foo command blefargs'</execute> or 
> something like that
> 

<execute>env YOURVAR=foo command blefargs</execute>



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