Re: .fvwm2rc question

1997-10-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > > > Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep > > > -v grep | awk '{print $2}') > > > > > > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ? > > > > Becau

Re: .fvwm2rc question

1997-10-06 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > > Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep > > -v grep | awk '{print $2}') > > > > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ? > > Because fvwm2 doesn't start a shell the command you give abov

Re: .fvwm2rc question

1997-10-06 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep > -v grep | awk '{print $2}') > > This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ? Because fvwm2 doesn't start a shell the command you give above uses the shell

.fvwm2rc question

1997-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I have a pretty minor question which however is bothering me. I am asking fvwm2 through a menu definition in .fvwmrc to kill a process with the command Exec"Stop It" exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}') This works in the shell but not from