Close stderr before forking wl-copy #154
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The default mode of the kitty terminal is to wait until output from all subprocesses is finished before closing. This means running `wl-copy asdf; exit` will exit the shell but cause kitty to hang as it waits for wl-copy to output. This change closes stderr to prevent this issue.
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Hi! This has been proposed before (see #110), and I'm still not convinced this is a good idea. |
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Use echo asdf | kitty +kitten clipboard instead, when running inside kitty. There is no need to use WM specific tools for copying to clipboard. |
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Not closing stderr will leave a ssh command having called wl-copy to hang there until something else has copied. Also, doing a |
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The default mode of the kitty terminal is to wait until output from all subprocesses is finished before closing. This means running
wl-copy asdf; exitwill exit the shell but cause kitty to hang as it waits for wl-copy to output. This change closes stderr to prevent this issue.