urxvt from fluxboxwm menu

[Jason McCarver]

On 2/13/24 16:16, Duke Normandin wrote:
> I'm trying to launch a terminal application from the Fluxbox Menu
> file, as follow, but without any luck:
> 
> urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"
> -bg black -fg green -e "tail -20 ~/notes/leftoff.txt;
> $SHELL"
> 
> Any help would be appreciated! TIA ...

You might try this:
urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15" -bg black -fg 
green -e $SHELL -c "tail -20 ~/notes/leftoff.txt; $SHELL -li"

-e to urxvt expects you to pass the arguments to the command (from man 
urxvt): -e command [arguments]

The way you were calling it you were telling urxvt to execute a command 
called "tail -20 ~/notes/leftoff.txt; $SHELL" with no arguments.

Jason