Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-06 Thread linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 December 2001 09:37, Dave Price wrote: > sure enough, > that does work ... but every thing else i have tried does not ... one > problem is that my xterm/aterm has too small a font unless i add command > line switches ... i cannot brin

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Price
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:13:16PM +0100, Tomas Capdevila wrote: > > i think there are several mistakes in your lines: > > --background #4682b4 > > first, aterm does not understand #4682b4 (at least on my machine), > second, this is a nice comment sign you put there, so the rest of the > lin

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Tim Keating
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Tomas Capdevila wrote: > this works for me, some examples, they should stand in one line: > > > [exec] (mutt-main) {xterm -ls -bg black -g 86x62 -fg grey -fn 9x15 +j > -T mutt-main -sb -e /usr/bin/mutt} > > > [exec] (xterm-pico) {xterm -ls -bg black -g 86x62 -fg grey -fn 9x

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Tomas Capdevila
hello dave, this works for me, some examples, they should stand in one line: [exec] (mutt-main) {xterm -ls -bg black -g 86x62 -fg grey -fn 9x15 +j -T mutt-main -sb -e /usr/bin/mutt} [exec] (xterm-pico) {xterm -ls -bg black -g 86x62 -fg grey -fn 9x15 +j -T pico -sb -e /usr/bin/pico workspac

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Price
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:12:08AM -0600, Gino Peregrini wrote: > Dave, > > I have this item in my menu. It works: > > [exec] (Edit Menu) {xterm -e vim .blackbox/menu} > > --I use vim rather than vi, but that shouldn't make a difference. And > you can add options for color etc. And of cours

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Gino Peregrini
Dave, I have this item in my menu. It works: [exec] (Edit Menu) {xterm -e vim .blackbox/menu} --I use vim rather than vi, but that shouldn't make a difference. And you can add options for color etc. And of course use the term of your choice-- Gino On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 06:42, Dave Price

Re: parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Marco Fioretti
Dave, try to put everything inside single quotes: [exec] (edit menu) {'vi ~/.blackbox/menu'} I'm not sure it would work for all cases, though, Let us know, Marco On Wednesday 05 December 2001 13:42, Dave Price wrote: > good morning! > > i am having a hard time figuring out how

parameters in menus?

2001-12-05 Thread Dave Price
good morning! i am having a hard time figuring out how to pass parameters (args) to programs frfom a blackbox menu entry. things like: [exec] (aterm) {aterm --background #4682b4 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 -title $HOSTNAME -geometry 80x25} or: [exec] (edit