Re: execf not working

Martin Steer <martinsteer-DhbpxLVwpzy6c6uEtOJ/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:09:22AM +0100, Kelly Collier wrote:
>
>Thanks to both of you for your replies. Guess I'll look for a
>different solution to my problem than execf. (I'm trying to find a
>means to open an application in a frame that isn't selected.)

I recall that this sort of question has been asked a number of times,
so the archives might be worth a look.

Perhaps something like this will work for you:

alias foo exec xtoolwait xterm -T 'foo' && ratpoison -c 'number 1'

Martin
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