https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/axi4n6/closing_xterm_causes_the_app_to_exit_inspite_of/ Adding nohup works but ONLY for xclock xfontsel xpdf - hexchat and firefox exit when the terminal exits - basically GTK apps. Script creates a named-pipe .Xauthority to pass MIT-MAGIC-cookie data to a app running as X_USER. It works great but I'm unable to detach the process from its XTerm. Closing XTerm closes the app. I want to use an XTerm because it supports -hold (for debugging) if there's a problem I can insert a -hold to view the error message. #!/usr/bin/bash #Usage: bash run appname set +xv X_USER=veek DIR_X_USER=/home/veek function error { echo "$@" >>/tmp/error.$0 } function create_fifo { error $FUNCNAME[0]; mkfifo ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority; chown $USER:$USER ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority } getopts k myarg case $myarg in k) pkill -KILL -u ${X_USER}; shift;; *) if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 [-k] app_name"; exit 1; fi;; esac declare -A myapp_list=( [ff]=firefox [hex]=hexchat [pdf]='wine .wine/drive_c/Program Files/Tracker Software/PDF Viewer/PDFXCview.exe' ) case $1 in pdf*) set ${myapp_list[$1]%% *} "${myapp_list[$1]#[a-z]* }";; *) set ${myapp_list[$1]:-"$@"};; esac [ ! -O ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority ] && { error $FUNCNAME[0]; rm ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority; create_fifo; } [ -f ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority ] && { error $FUNCNAME[0]; exit exit 1; } [ ! -p ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority ] && { error $FUNCNAME[0]; create_fifo; } if [ -p ${DIR_X_USER}/.Xauthority ]; then xterm -geometry -0-0 -T 'sudoAuth' -e bash -c ' if mkdir -v /tmp/fe.lock; then echo "start"; trap "rm -rf /tmp/fe.lock/" 0 declare -g count=0 while true; do #blocks waiting for an app to read fifo cat ~/.Xauthority >>$1/.Xauthority; echo $((count = count + 1)) ; done else exit 0 fi ' junk_txt "${DIR_X_USER}"& fi #xterm -e "su - ${X_USER} -c 'export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority; hexchat'" #-hold to see the XTerm error msg xterm -T "$1" -e sudo -u "${X_USER}" bash -c ' export DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/veek/.Xauthority progname="$1"; shift; cd; if [ ${#1} -gt 0 ]; then echo two args nohup "$progname" "$1"& else nohup "$progname"& fi for pid in $(jobs -p); do echo $pid disown $pid done echo done sleep 40' junk_txt "$1" "$2"& _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
