On Thu 08 Dec 2011 09:48:07 PM PST, Kaibin Li wrote:
> In current hg tip, after launching a program from dmenu, the process
> of dmenu_run will not exit until the program launched by it exits.
Good find! Here is my patch to fix the problem. Cheers.
diff --git a/dmenu_run b/dmenu_run
index 35a4db3..c5485e7 100755
--- a/dmenu_run
+++ b/dmenu_run
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ else
cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache
fi
(
+ echo -n "exec "
IFS=:
if [ "`ls -dt $PATH "$cache" | head -n 1`" != "$cache" ]; then
lsx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
else
dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
fi
-) | exec ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"}
+) | exec ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} &
--
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-- Anatole France
