From 70f23caa9a18afc146f696fdf7d2481e5f7f0101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sergio <sergio+it@outerface.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 11:53:50 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix #4697, adds backslashes quotation for exec (#4699)

Signed-off-by: Sergio E. Nemirowski <sergio@outerface.net>
---
 i3-dmenu-desktop | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/i3-dmenu-desktop b/i3-dmenu-desktop
index 09670f652..e43d95aaf 100755
--- a/i3-dmenu-desktop
+++ b/i3-dmenu-desktop
@@ -482,7 +482,8 @@ EOT
     # double quote which is NOT preceded by a backslash (\).
     #
     # Therefore, we escape all double quotes (") by replacing them with \"
-    $exec =~ s/"/\\"/g;
+    $exec =~ s/\\"/\\\\\\"/g;
+    $exec =~ s/([^\\])"/$1\\"/g;
 
     if (exists($app->{StartupNotify}) && !$app->{StartupNotify}) {
         $nosn = '--no-startup-id';