Crashdamage Posted May 31, 2003 Report Share Posted May 31, 2003 First, I'll say I can start slrn fine from an open aterm window. But I use FluxBox and I'd like to be able to start slrn from a FluxBox menu entry like I do Mutt, vim, etc. But it doesn't work. For example, my FluxBox menu entry for aterm is: [exec] (aterm) {aterm -fg 15 -bg 8 -cr 6 -pr 1 -sl 400 -tr +sb -sh 100 -geometry 80x30+20-15} Works perfect. To take it another step, to start Mutt in aterm from the Flux menu, the menu entry is like this: [exec] (Mutt) {aterm -fg 15 -bg 8 -cr 6 -pr 1 -tr +sb -sh 100 -geometry 80x30+5+15 -e mutt} Of course vim and others work about the same, basically just change the end to "-e vim" or whatever. Usually this works great - I use a VERY long script following "-e mc -C base_color= blah blah" to start Midnight Commander in color in a transparent aterm window. Very cool. So I wrote an entry for slrn: [exec] (SLRN) {aterm -fg 15 -bg 8 -cr 6 -pr 1 -tr +sb -sh 100 -e slrn -s ~/.slrnrc -f jnewsrc.tera} But that (and some more simplified versions) won't load properly - just opens an empty terminal that won't accept any input, no cursor or anything. I know it's no big thing to open aterm and type "slrn" but I'd still like to sort this out, mostly just so I know WHY it doesn't work. I've got the same problem with 1 or 2 other apps and I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong in the menu script. I realize it's really not a slrn problem, but something more to do with the calling software (aterm or FluxBox). Any suggestions? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 [exec] (SLRN) {aterm -fg 15 -bg 8 -cr 6 -pr 1 -tr +sb -sh 100 -e slrn -s ~/.slrnrc -f jnewsrc.tera} Any suggestions? Thanks! I cannont find any '-s' option in slrn's man page; maybe you meant '-i' (but anyhow, i don't think you need to put that option at all since slrn will look for .slrnrc by default IMHO "jnewsrc.tera" should have the path to it So I would have done it this way: [exec] (SLRN) {NNTPSERVER="news.somewhere.com" aterm -fg 15 -bg 8 -cr 6 -pr 1 -tr +sb -sh 100 -e slrn -f ~/.jnewsrc.tera} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted June 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Thanks aru, worked perfect! You were right the"-s" shoulda been "-i". I was trying to type that string in a hurry from memory at work. I also left out "~/." in "-f jnewsrc.tera". Shoulda waited to post 'til I got home and got it right. Anyway, the whole "-i ~/.slrnrc" part was just me trying to force slrn to find the file. But you got me thinking and the thing I found that was really the problem was in the *actual* menu string. I'd left out the 1st "." in "~/.jnewsrc.tera" Can't believe I didn't catch that before...really dumb...sorry to bother you, that was a kinda brain-dead post, but thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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