[openbox] Difficulty running SLRN with the openbox menu

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:44:44PM +0000, Matt Smith wrote:
>> <item label="SLRN">
>>   <action name="Execute"><execute>rxvt -e slrn</execute></action>
>> </item>
>>
>> This works for all other CLI applications that I use but not for SLRN.
>> When I type:
>>
>> rxvt -e slrn
>>
>> in a terminal window the program launches as intended.
>> When I click on the menu item the RXVT window opens briefly then
>> dissappears.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before?
>
> Try to use:
>
>      <item label='SLRN'>
> 		<action name='Execute'>
> 			<execute>rxvt -e sh -c &quot;slrn&quot;</execute>
> 		</action>
>      </item>

quoting a single argument with only alphabetic characters is a bit 
overkill.

> Of course change sh to your shell.

No reason to do that.

changing it to 'slrn;cat' (but properly xml quoted) might give some clue 
as to why it's quitting.

> regards
> fEnIo
>
>

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Mikael Magnusson