Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> (29/05/2011): > I also had this issue when I used dash as /bin/sh, and from gdm. In > .xsession-errors there were some error messages about spurious "(". > My guess is dash is not happy with bashisms in scripts, certainly > $(.
If you mean $(command), that's not a bashism. Here's POSIX shell for you: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html Particularly: 2.6.3 Command Substitution Now, if you have spotted a particular file or line misbehaving, please mention which it is exactly. Mraw, KiBi.
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