Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:52:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping from fvwm2 menu Message-ID: <19981121195241.A1005@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981121190358.50352@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 07:03:58PM %2B1100 References: <19981121190358.50352@welearn.com.au>
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On Saturday, 21 November 1998 at 19:03:58 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > Here's the line I've got within a menu block in .fvwm2rc > >> "ping dukkha" Exec xterm -n "dukkha" -T "ping dukkha" -e ping -c 5 dukkha > > It works fine, but disappears too soon to read the summary. > > The real problem is that I don't know whether to tell fvwm2 or xterm > how to behave. I can't find hints in either man page so it might > not even be possible, or it's something easy that I just can't see. > Has anyone done this a better way? Why not write a script which does it the ping and then pauses until you press Enter? Something like: + "ping dukkha" Exec xterm -n "dukkha" -T "ping dukkha" -e myping myping would then be: #!/bin/sh ping -c 5 dukkha read confirmation Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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