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

Mikael Magnusson mikachu at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 03:06:46 EDT 2014


On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:12 AM, 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>

use sh -c "exec icecat ...

-- 
Mikael Magnusson


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