On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:39AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange issue with notify-send (using either window-manager: > openbox or pekwm). So, what happens is that the pop-up (on the > top right of the screen) appears to fall off the edge of the screen (on > the right) with occasionally the rightmost part showing on the top left > of the screen. > > As an example, consider the following: > > notify-send "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow who says hello > world to all the world" > > the following is what happens on my 1920x1080 resolution laptop -- there > is a popup and I see the following on the right side of my screen: I > see upto "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow" (with only half > the "w" displayed) and on the next line, I get "world to all the > world". Clearly, the line goes beyond the workspace and eventually > wraps around. On the other hand, I get notify-send "Hello" all right > without any issues (because I guess the number of characters is too > small to make a difference?). Bash does history expansion inside double quotes. Did you try escaping the `!', something like "World\!". Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
