Re: [RP] ratpoison 1.4.0-beta2

[Shawn Betts]

"Joshua Neuheisel" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: "Martin Samuelsson"
> Subject: Re: [RP] ratpoison 1.4.0-beta2
> 
> 
> > > Have you had any problems with it?
> >
> > Maybe?
> >
> > Previously this worked, but it doesn't anymore.
> >
> > C-t ! (LC_ALL=sv_SE.ISO-8859-1 urxvt)
> >
> > Does anyone have a correct syntax for the above that works now? I.e. for
> > executing a command with a environmental variable set.
> 
> The problem has to do with the fact that "exec" is now silently prefixed to
> all shell commands.  One way around this is to perform the following:
> C-t ! bash -c '( LANG=C xterm )'

Hmm. that's problematic. It was originally tacked on to get rid of
/bin/sh processes hanging around on OpenBSD.

Perhaps I should revert and get the OpenBSDers to just Be Rad.

-Shawn