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xfrun doesn't handle ~
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfce-utils

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Description Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2008-04-27 15:55:47 CEST
Hi,

a Debian user requested to be able to use “~” for home folder in xfrun. It'd be a nice thing to have, but as it doesn't run a shell, it's not currently.

Having a complete shell run inside a tiny app like this doesn't make sense, but adding this kind of feature may be nice.

Thanks and cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
Comment 1 James Stanley 2010-07-25 18:21:15 CEST
Created attachment 3044 
Patch to the current git master of xfce-utils to add tilde expansion to xfrun.
Comment 2 James Stanley 2010-07-25 18:23:51 CEST
I've attached a patch that will expand a leading tilde to the user's home directory as returned by g_get_home_dir().

Potential caveats:
 - It won't expand ~otheruser/ to otheruser's home directory
 - It will ignore the HOME environment variable
 - If the user's home directory in /etc/passwd has a trailing slash then the "~/" will expand to "/home/user//"

I don't believe any of these are problems, and they should be easy enough to change if necessary.
Comment 3 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2010-10-25 14:58:16 CEST
The xfrun part of this bug is fixed, we just need to fix xfce_expand_variables now. This is bug #6742.
Comment 4 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2010-10-25 14:59:50 CEST
James, thanks a lot for your patch, but we have a function in Xfce (xfce_expand_variables) which is supposed to do that. It needs to be fixed, but that's another story.

Bug #4041

Reported by:
Yves-Alexis Perez
Reported on: 2008-04-27
Last modified on: 2010-10-25

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Jérôme Guelfucci
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