[openbox] Possible bug with the menu and console applications

[Marc Wilson]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:04:32PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
>     <item label="vim">
>       <action name="execute"><execute>vim</execute></action>
>     </item>

If that's meant to launch the character-mode vim, then that menu entry is
seriously broken.  You need to run it inside a terminal.  How are you going
to interact with it otherwise?

> When I execute this selection my keyboard no longer responds and I can
> no longer focus on applications.

Well, *that* shouldn't happen either, I have to say.  No doubt something
odd is happening with stdin/stdout.

> This seems to occur with any console application I try and happens every
> time I try.

Well, launching a console application in this manner shouldn't lock the UI
up, but it's certainly not a useful thing to be doing (see above).  No
console application should function properly when launched in this manner
unless it's smart enough to start a GUI when it sees it doesn't have a
terminal.

> In the meantime I'm using `xterm -e vim` to the same effect, but that may
> want to be classified as a bug?

No, the invocation with xterm (or the *term of your choice) is the *right*
way to do it.  It's the UI locking up that would be a "bug", not the
behavior of the console application.

> Oh, and I did try with "emacs" just to be sure it wasn't a vim issue, I
> figured someone would bring that up :)

I don't know why anyone would bother.  It's obviously not the client
application that's the problem.  Let me guess, the emacs process that gets
started is the GUI one, right?

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