From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:20:54 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: herbstluftwm/autostart: fix notify() with dzen2
X-Git-Url: https://ruderich.org/simon/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=32ea05f3fee7ba980135d0888ce00df5861dd1e6;p=config%2Fdotfiles.git

herbstluftwm/autostart: fix notify() with dzen2

Without the read x, the message is not displayed when & is used.
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diff --git a/herbstluftwm/autostart b/herbstluftwm/autostart
index 0cbecf4..f8b7c3a 100755
--- a/herbstluftwm/autostart
+++ b/herbstluftwm/autostart
@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ installed() {
 # $1: timeout
 notify() {
     if installed dzen2; then
-        sed 's/\^/^^/g' | dzen2 -fg blue -bg yellow -y 15 -h 30 -p "$1" &
+        read x
+        printf '%s\n' "$x" | sed 's/\^/^^/g' \
+            | dzen2 -fg blue -bg yellow -y 15 -h 30 -p "$1" &
     elif installed xmessage; then
         # Fallback solution, display first line of stdin.
         read x