On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 06:24:08PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Perhaps the extension sends xvile a SIGHUP or something like that, and > > > gvim ignores it. > > > > > It doesn't give up, the xvile window opens and stays open but it never > > has control. No text appears in the window, no menus, nothing. ... > > and you can't exit either, you have to kill it. > > hmm - I probably don't have a similar configuration to compare > (I'm only using Firefox on MacOS, which has its own problems), > but strace would still be the place to start. I took a look at > the output from starting xvile and gvim (athena) on my Debian 8 > machine, and the traces are rather long. Also, I overlooked the > "-f" option (since the X11 library does its own fork, following > subprocesses is needed). > > So... what type of system are you using (in case I can reproduce it)? > I'm running xubuntu, same issue on both 16.04 and 17.10 (both have Firefox 57 which is what opened this can of worms).
> > Running xvile from an xterm (using a wrapper script) works OK. > > oh - firefox -> add-on -> script -> xterm -> xvile > Yes, I've actually got a workaround using rxvt which means I can hide the terminal window:- rxvt -iconic -e xvile <file> Works beautifully. I suspect that much of the problem may be down to xfce4-terminal (my default terminal) running multiple terminal windows as one process. Though why 'gvim -f' is different from 'xvile +fork' is still the question. Anyway, I have a reasonable workaround now. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vile mailing list vile@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/vile