The code can be found by clicking here. Save it as mini95.c, then compile this with “gcc mini95.c -lX11 -o mini95”.

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    19 days ago

    In X11 you can just use ‘exec app-name’ and it will replace the terminal window with the app. In Wayland, I got it to work with this:

    setsid app-name & disown
    sleep 1
    exit
    

    Without the ‘sleep 1’, it exits the terminal too quickly for the app to launch, at least when I tried it.

    *Edit: In order for it to work as a script, you still need to type exec first. Or, in my case, I aliased “open-app” to “exec open-app”.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah, thanks, been to all these places already,sleep included (except setsid in Wayland but I doubt that’s the crucial issue). And yes it does work, sort of - the problem is that the apps exit spontaneously at some point later - sometimes hours, sometimes days - which absolutely does not happen when I launch them in whatever “official” way. In the end I just gave up. Needing a sleep hack is a bit of a red flag after all.