Ok, sorry, but one final (hopefully) question. dmenu_run does "xy | /bin/sh &". Like this the thing then is owned by PID 1. I use (instead of dmenu_run)
: ${LINES:=30} cmd=$(<< '_EOT' dmenu -l $((LINES - LINES/10)) "$@" # Browse /bin/sh -c 'touch /run/user/$(id -u)/box-browse/root/#' doas /x/pub/box-web.sh browse firefox ... _EOT ) exec ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} -c "$cmd" Like this "$cmd" is owned by dwm. I only wonder *why* this is backgrounded. Thank you. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)