Re: Execute a bash command in ratpoison

[Martin Samuelsson]

David Trombly @ 2019-11-11 (Monday), 06:24 (+0300)
> I was wondering if it would be possible to display the contents of a bash 
> script inside Ratpoison.

Likely, the command you're looking for is "echo". Try e.g.:

 ratpoison --command "echo $HOME `whoami`"

Documentation available at:

https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/The-Status-Bar.html#The-Status-Bar

Hope that'll get you started!

> I coded my own menu in bash, using bash color codes, and I thought it might be possible 
> to view it inside Ratpoison. I've tried the straight exec command, and it escapes with an 
> error code "(1)". 

This might disappoint you, but ratpoison does not parse colour codes. So 
they will not work in the bar.

If ratpoison reports a script to finish with an error code, that's because 
the script did. Try debugging it in a terminal at first. Executing it there 
should yield the same result as starting it with ratpoison's exec. There's 
no magic involved when launching.

> I'm assuming it's possible, since ratmen is based in bash as well too.
> I can post the code if you need me to, it's fairly basic echo commands with color codes 
> and "#" used as borders and seperators as well.
> Any ideas?

Maybe looking at http://ratpoison.wxcvbn.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl can bring some 
insight and inspiration? Especially the script section.