RH9 Lauchers/Commands ???

rryjew · 07-17-2003, 06:08 PM

I've got RH9 installed and I have a question about configuring application launcers. A few of the launchers that came by default with RH9 use a "%" followed by another character. For example:

The xmms launcher is: xmms -e %F
and
Mozilla is: mozilla %u

My question is what does the % character do and where is this documented.

TIA

Ray

sidey · 07-18-2003, 02:48 AM

Its a metaparameter,

I have never been inrigued by this before but after a quick bounce around google it turns out that when running something like xmms, it would be nice to have a file. so %F invokes it with n arguments (file name), Then when its xmms is running and you double click on a song on the playlist xmms %F changes to xmms filename.mp3 or whatever. well thats my understanding from what i just read, the link is here

http://cantonlinux.org/pipermail/tec...ch/002781.html

Would check it but work despises linux

rryjew · 07-18-2003, 08:17 AM

Thanks for the help. But I'm still trying to find out where metaparamers are documented. When I searched google for: Linux metaparameters the results were rather meager.

When you searched google what was your query string.

Thanks

r

sidey · 07-18-2003, 08:50 AM

www.google.com/linux

then i stuck in xmms %F