The home shortcut (~/) in the config seems to not work anymore

[Dragon-Chicken]

relative paths in ~/.config/sxwmrc don't work anymore?
I think after the commit 1763280 clean up parser something broke all relative paths in the config file.
an example is:

exec :  "~/.my_auto_start_script"

after changing the above command to this it works:

exec : "/home/my_username/.my_auto_start_script"

so, I used git and reverted back to before the commit 1763280 clean up parser and it looks like before the commit, execvp (in sxwm.c) ran /home/ethan/.sxwm-autostart rather than ~/.sxwm-autostart (it added in the /home/ethan/ by itself) so somewhere in the parser, it used to add the /home/ethan/ before the command, but now it doesn't do it.

[Dragon-Chicken]

I will try and find what exactly caused this issue tomorrow

[Dragon-Chicken]

I've found the issue. It's because of the changes to the function build_argv in parser.c in the commit 1763280 clean up parser. The function wordexp apparently expands the ~/ into /home/{your_name} and this function has been removed in that commit. I'm guessing you've removed it because of the security risks?

[Dragon-Chicken]

I called it relative paths before because I didn't know what it was called 😔

[uint23]

yeah thats right. wordexp is also not included in OpenBSD and others i presume so i had to maintain another wordexp alternative. the simplest solution was to just remove it outright.

i think the best way to approach this is to just call sh if you want shell substitution. it shouldnt be the wm's job to do this imo

[Dragon-Chicken]

oh I didn't even know that was possible lol
Would be nice to add it to the docs because it was a bit confusing when I update 😅

sorry for the late reply