[openbox] How To Terminate sh cmd from apps in menu.xml?

E R ears.box at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 02:27:11 EDT 2014


Ahhh I spoke to soon, it appears this command above will work for
icecat & firefox but for another application it's not working, hmm

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:16 PM, E R <ears.box at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahhh this appears to be doing the trick;
>
> <command>sh -c "icecat > /dev/null 2>&1 &"</command>
>
> Is that good?
>
> thanks
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:12 PM, E R <ears.box at gmail.com> 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 > /dev/null 2>&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 > /dev/null 2>&1 &"</command>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mii


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