Re: [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Eric Krohn wrote:

> Gary,
>
> That annoyed me at first, but there is an easier way around it than
> hacking the code.
>
> xvile +fork
>
> +fork/-fork are not in the manual page (at least not in the Debian 9.7x-2
> package on Linux), but it does show up if you run xvile -? and it is in
> vile's help file (ctl-A h).

The resource is forkOnStartup (I don't recall changing it - assume we're 
talking about the side-effects of installing the app-defaults file).

> --
> Eric Krohn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Gary Jennejohn <address@hidden>
> Date:  Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:53:04 +0100
> To:  Vile mailing list <address@hidden>
> Subject:  [vile] Xvile sort of daemonizing itself
>
> I've noticed that xvile now does a (v)fork() in order to set itself up
> as a session leader.
>
> I commented out the code in x11.c which does this.
>
> I do not like this behavior because it screws up using xvile as the
> external editor in my claws-mail setup.
>
> I looked at the source and saw that this is controlled by a Xresource.
> What do I have to set in my .Xresource file to disable this behavior?
> I couldn't find any reference to this in the help (:h).
>
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