Re: How To Terminate sh cmd from apps in menu.xml?

E R <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.openbox
Message-ID <CAB1i-SyaDXymDfXBLVp2pn8a+kQY_kaPkpX10XGtBRitS7V4YQ@mail.gmail.com>
By the way I'm being told from someone that in the Openbox source it
calls sh and is the reason for this?

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:57 PM, E R <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I use tint2 in Openbox so I just posted here to see if anyone could help...
>
>
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> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:39 AM, TT <[email protected]> wrote:
>> i already found your previous posts not really on topic, but this definitely
>> hasn't got anything to do with openbox anymore.
>> maybe your distro has an online chat, try there.
>>
>>
>> On 10/31/2014 11:10 PM, E R wrote:
>>
>> While we're on the subject of terminating multiple sh instances
>> running, I use Tint2 from SVN with Openbox, and if anyone uses it, you
>> can create 'Launchers' for it that start the app from a .desktop file.
>>
>> So with some launchers I've created, when I click on one of those,
>> I'll get an sh instance for the application running from the .desktop,
>> and the application process as well, anyone know how I can stop this
>> .desktop sh instance from running too?
>>
>> I have one launcher for bleachbit, when I click to run it and look in
>> htop this is what I'll see;
>>
>> /bin/sh -c bleachbit > /dev/null 2>&1
>> python /usr/bin/bleachbit
>>
>> The contents of the bleachbit.desktop have two exec lines, not sure
>> why the 'TryExec' one;
>>
>>
>> TryExec=bleachbit >/dev/null 2>&1
>> Exec=bleachbit >/dev/null 2>&1
>>
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:49 AM, E R <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ok so this is good then?
>>
>> <command>sh -c "exec hexchat &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;"</command>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Dana Jansens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> exec makes the shell replace its own process with the command instead of
>> running a sub-process, so ya what Mikael said.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:15 AM, E R <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Actually my bad, this does appear to work;
>>
>> <command>sh -c "icecat &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;"</command>
>>
>> So you're saying I should change it to this instead?
>>
>>
>> <command>sh -c "exec icecat &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;"</command>
>>
>> I've never known to put exec in a openbox menu.xml <command> before, hmm
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:12 AM, E R <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to run some apps to /dev/null in menu.xml, so I have like this
>> example below;
>>
>> <command>sh -c "icecat &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1"</command>
>>
>> But if run the command like this I see in htop the application name
>> running and sh too.
>>
>> I forgot who it was just recently showed me how to stop sh from
>> running when using commands in the autostart.sh, but not sure how to
>> apply this to the menu.xml command.
>>
>>
>> All I understand is that I need an ampersand & on the end of the
>> command, something like this?
>>
>> <command>sh -c "icecat &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &"</command>
>>
>> use sh -c "exec icecat ...
>>
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