From 2584dda50db06c6173fcf2320757dd32c0f401e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Hopp Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 16:07:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about hanging xclip --- NOTES.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 NOTES.md diff --git a/NOTES.md b/NOTES.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c995603 --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTES.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Notes + +## xclip hangs in subshell environment + +In certain situations xclip is known to wait infinatly. +According to this: + +- [Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19237559/why-xclip-bashrc-takes-much-longer-than-systemxclip-bashrc-in-ruby) +- [Sourceforge](http://sourceforge.net/p/xclip/bugs/9/) + +This is related to xclip not closing stdout. + +To mitigate this I will try to close stdout and stderr within the +accountmanager.sh script.