[openbox] ~me versus /home/meme

[dcarroll]

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.
> 

It worked. This will tide me over until the next release. Thank you to 
everybody for your help.

Sincerely,

-- Dennis