From 32ea05f3fee7ba980135d0888ce00df5861dd1e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 21:20:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] herbstluftwm/autostart: fix notify() with dzen2

Without the read x, the message is not displayed when & is used.
---
 herbstluftwm/autostart | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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
-- 
2.45.2