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Fabian Homborg 5b706faa73 open: Workaround an xdg-open bug
If it can't recognize the DE, xdg-open uses a "generic" way of opening
things where it doesn't spawn off a DE-provided utility like kde-open.

This sounds great, but it fails to fork and therefore blocks the
terminal.

So we start it in the background and disown it.

Fixes #7215.
2020-07-21 16:59:05 +02:00

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#
# This allows us to use 'open FILENAME' to open a given file in the default
# application for the file.
#
if not command -sq open
function open --description "Open file in default application"
set -l options h/help
argparse -n open $options -- $argv
or return
if set -q _flag_help
__fish_print_help open
return 0
end
if not set -q argv[1]
printf (_ "%ls: Expected at least %d args, got only %d\n") open 1 0
return 1
end
if type -q -f cygstart
for i in $argv
cygstart $i
end
else if type -q -f xdg-open
for i in $argv
# In the "generic" path where it doesn't use a helper utility,
# xdg-open fails to fork off, so it blocks the terminal.
xdg-open $i &
# Note: We *need* to pass $last_pid, or it will disown the last *existing* job.
# In case xdg-open forks, that would be whatever else the user has backgrounded.
#
# Yes, this has a (hopefully theoretical) race of the PID being recycled.
disown $last_pid 2>/dev/null
end
else
echo (_ 'No open utility found. Try installing "xdg-open" or "xdg-utils".')
end
end
end