Hello again, another possibility are you commented out the inner quotes....but i believe not really that this works:
"xterm -ls +sb -bg \`rlc\`" i think that the best and fastes way is my first suggestion. best regards michael 2005/8/22, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Eduardo Tongson wrote: > > > On 8/22/05, walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > xterm -bg `rlc` (gives a random-light-colored background) > > > > > > This works great when I type the command from an xterm > > > window -- but it fails when I click on a gnome or xfce > > > icon containing the same command. > > > what happens when you quote it > > "xterm -bg `rlc`" > > Really strange behavior -- the xfce gui complains that the > second " can't be found. No idea why. I also tried several > combinations of single quotes and backslashes and nothing > worked. > > In any case I followed Michael's suggestion and wrote a > shellscript which works the way I wanted. (I notice that > xfce's version of xterm is actually a shellscript which > invokes xterm, and now I know why :o) > >
