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mini95. A minimal, "almost" dependency-free dmenu clone. With a Windows 95 theme. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by GustavoM@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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The code can be found by clicking here. Save it as mini95.c, then compile this with "gcc mini95.c -lX11 -o mini95".

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[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Tangential. I tried everything to replicate the basic function of an app launcher in a terminal - i.e. launch a GUI app while leaving the terminal unaffected and have the app survive without spontaneous combustion at some random point later - before finally giving up. Yes, background process. Yes, disown. Yes, redirect all output to null. Yes, nohup. Yes, every combination of the above. Nothing really worked. So I now have a mystical reverence for the people who write app launchers.

[-] Remus86@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In X11 you can just use 'exec app-name' and it will replace the terminal window with the app. In Wayland, I got it to work with this:

setsid app-name & disown
sleep 1
exit

Without the 'sleep 1', it exits the terminal too quickly for the app to launch, at least when I tried it.

*Edit: In order for it to work as a script, you still need to type exec first. Or, in my case, I aliased "open-app" to "exec open-app".

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