Re: .fvwm2rc question

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:

>         Exec    "Stop It"       exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep
> -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
> 
> This works in the shell but not from the menu. Any ideas why ?

Because fvwm2 doesn't start a shell .... the command you give above uses
the shell characters ( | $ etc., but there's no shell to interpret them.  

                     					Will

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			       lowe@cis.udel.edu
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