On 12/22/2017 7:56 PM, Paul Gevers wrote:
Hi Jude, On 22-12-17 19:26, Jude DaShiell wrote:as near as I can tell, echo does not work when used after alt-f2 in a text command.Just tried, for me it works (in KDE).
I don't use mate but if it is like gnome: From: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/CheatSheet "Alt+F2 allows entering a command to launch an application." So from now on could you enter the commands in a terminal? There is no need to redirect the output of 'echo $DISPLAY' to a file.
I also found out it's necessary to use touch to create a file first before anything can be sent to that file.That is absolutely not normal.
As Paul said, something is very rong here. -- John Doe