Re: [xmonad] shellPrompt exec with args

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote:

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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, but shellPrompt uses "spawn" so should not have issues with extra arguments. I do see an issue where completion would break if an executable has a space in its name, but that shouldn't affect running it if you have your quoting correct.

Unsuccessfully tried the following "xterm -e mc" "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" 'xterm -e mc' '/usr/bin/xterm -e mc'

That wasn't what I was talking about, and you should probably forget I mentioned it since you're only likely to see the case I was talking about on OS X. All of the above *will* fail: there is no executable called "/usr/bin/xterm -e mc" with spaces in the actual filename, hopefully.

Could you show your actual code?

-- shellPrompt is bound to Mod1-p ((defModMask, xK_p), shellPrompt myXPConfig) -- and uses myXPConfig = defaultXPConfig { position = Top , promptBorderWidth = 0 , defaultText = "" , alwaysHighlight = True }