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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: UWM under X10 question
Message-ID: <588@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 17:02:26 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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I am working on putting together some uwm menus.  I am trying to have
an entry set up to bring up a window with bc running in it.  What I have
so far doesnt work - bc says that it cannot read input and dies.  I have:  
BC: !"xterm =20x20-0-0 -fn 6x10 -e bc -l ~/.bcrc "

as my menu entry.  ~/.bcrc contains some startup info (like default scale, etc.)
What is weird is that I type this at the command line and it works just fine.
I have a similar problem with xlock - I try to have a menu selection for
it:
Lock: !"xlock ; date"
and sometimes it works and sometimes it just puts the terminal into a weird
state where characters are echoed but no newline seems to be working.

Anyone have any tips on this area of menu generation?


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