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.
diff --git a/accountmanager.sh b/accountmanager.sh
index 3e30567..fc042a7 100644
--- a/accountmanager.sh
+++ b/accountmanager.sh
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ function amngradd() {
 		PASSWORD="$(amngrcrypt -r "${RECIPIENT}" -- "${3}")"
 	else
 		PASSWORD="$(amngrgen -r "${RECIPIENT}")"
-		echo -n "${PASSWORD}" | gpg -dq | xclip -i
+		echo -n "${PASSWORD}" | gpg -dq | xclip -i >&-
 	fi
 
 	if [ -z "${PASSWORD}" ]
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ function amngrgetuser() {
 	if [ $STDOUT -eq 0 ]
 	then
 		sqlite3 "${DB}" <<-EOD |\
-			awk 'NR>1{print p}{p=$0}END{ORS="";print}' | xclip -i
+			awk 'NR>1{print p}{p=$0}END{ORS="";print}' | xclip -i >&-
 			SELECT user FROM account
 			JOIN account_cred ON account.id=account_cred.account_id
 			JOIN cred ON cred.id=account_cred.cred_id
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ function amngrgetpass() {
 	test "${STATE}" != "1" -a "${STATE}" != "2" && STATE="1"
 
 	sqlite3 "${DB}" <<-EOD |\
-		awk 'NR>1{print p}{p=$0}END{ORS="";print}' | gpg -dq | xclip -i
+		awk 'NR>1{print p}{p=$0}END{ORS="";print}' | gpg -dq | xclip -i >&-
 		SELECT pass FROM account
 		JOIN account_cred ON account.id=account_cred.account_id
 		JOIN cred ON cred.id=account_cred.cred_id