Re: .icewm/menu doesn't recognize "~" as ${HOME} ?

"Walter Dnes" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 04:25:11PM +0300, Marius Feraru wrote
> Walter Dnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > prog QEMU_VM qemu /usr/bin/kvm [.../usr/bin/kvm's args...]
> >
> > ??Notice that I have to specify the disk image directory explicitly as
> > "/home/waltdnes/.qemu/". ??The program doesn't find the disk images if I
> > use "~/.qemu/". ??Is this a bug or a known limitation of Icewm?
> You should ask: "is this a bug or a known limitation of /usr/bin/kvm"?
> 
> Why would someone expect IceWM or whatever to interfere with the
> arguments you provide to whatever program you're calling?! NRN. :))

  I should have mentioned that when I run it from the command line or a
script in an xterm, it does work.  I.e. bash does the expansion from
"~" to "/home/waltdnes".  Maybe I'm expecting too much from Icewm.

-- 
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>

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