On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:47:00AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:23:52PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > A minor point:
> > command="battleball $DISPLAY comp"
> > should work too: command should be executed by the equivalent of
> > execl("/bin/sh","sh","-c",command,NULL)
>
> > If you know window manager where
> > command="/bin/sh -c 'exec /usr/games/battleball $DISPLAY comp'"
> > work but not
> > command="battleball $DISPLAY comp"
> > please tell me.
>
> According to the changelog, I fixed the battleball menu to use the
> "sh -c exec" hack in response to bug #245697. The archived report
> simply refers to "Gnome", and I'm not sure if it's still a problem
> there, but I'm reluctant to revert without a more clear indication
> that reverting will be safe.
Hello Chris,
GNOME menu in Sarge was completly broken. It now uses menu-xdg
which should work. Bug #245697 should have been reassigned to GNOME
instead.
> The current code, though admittedly baroque, should work with anything.
Not really, you are trading support for envvar for support for quote.
Anyway, I will add it to my test-suite.
Cheers,
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