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[Jasper]

Hi,

Using Slacko 5.3.1 Main/JWM and typing "fx" in a urxvt terminal then pressing Enter works if I insert into /root/.bashrc the line:

[duke93535]

Sounds to me like you want to Refresh Menus in one step as was done in Puppy 421? Just add refreshmenus to /usr/bin.

You can add it to the menu by editing the /etc/xdg/templates/_root_jwmrc with this line below the <Program label="Help”..... line.

[Jasper]

Hi duke93535,

Thank you so much for your clear and excellent help and I am pleased to tell you that I am now using "refreshmenus" which works very well and I like the elegant message and progress bar.

The refreshmenus script was too complicated [for me] to copy the style and to use it to combine more commands. However, I successfully managed multiple [albeit simple] commands with the "xdotool" when I used Lupu 5.1.

My regards and appreciation

[stu90]

Hello Jasper,
Sounds like you are sorted now but for your original question - you could try adding to your .bashrc:
alias fx="fixmenus && jwm -restart && exit"
the && lets you run one command after another but only when the command before it has finished.
exmaple: geany && mtpaint - you have to finish / close geany before mtpaint opens.
a single & will let you run the commands at the same time.
example: geany & mtpaint & - both geany and mtpaint will open at the same time.
The exit command at the end will close the terminal.

[Jasper]

Hi stu90,

Thank you too. You are also a star writer. Your solution will help with other alias' (to save typing and improve speed) in executing command line actions.

My regards

Note for any less experienced readers [like me] - I tried &&, but it failed because I had the inverted commas in wrong positions.

It seems vital that if there is any space in the full text of the joined commands [except around &&] they should start and end with inverted commas e.g. "command 1 && command 2" or if using the alias feature e.g. alias "command 1 && command 2 && exit"