From: martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:04:23 +0000 (+1200)
Subject: bgrun: use delayed cleanup hack
X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/mutt.git/commitdiff_plain/7c4851c8d6d033b461d5b591b18649e90de70f06

bgrun: use delayed cleanup hack
---

diff --git a/.mutt/bgrun b/.mutt/bgrun
index c51ea90..82e1748 100755
--- a/.mutt/bgrun
+++ b/.mutt/bgrun
@@ -90,4 +90,13 @@ case "$SELF" in
     wait
     cleanup
     ;;
+  (bgrun-delay)
+    # hack to stay around for a fixed period of time after the viewer process
+    # returns control to the caller, so that we can clean up. This is for
+    # cases when the FIFO method doesn't work, because e.g. Firefox randomly
+    # chooses it needs to read HTML files twice.
+    FILE="$(get_file "${1:-}")"
+    (launch_viewer "$MIMETYPE" "${FILE}" && notify_output) &
+    (sleep 1m && cleanup) &
+    ;;
 esac
diff --git a/.mutt/mailcap.backgrounding b/.mutt/mailcap.backgrounding
index 9ffa551..22f6884 100644
--- a/.mutt/mailcap.backgrounding
+++ b/.mutt/mailcap.backgrounding
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Mutt mailcap for backgrounding 
 
-text/html; ~/.mutt/bgrun-fifo %t; description=Open file in browser via FIFO
+text/html; ~/.mutt/bgrun-delay %t; description=Open file in browser via FIFO
 application/*; ~/.mutt/bgrun %t %s; description=Backgrounded run of run-mailcap
 image/*; ~/.mutt/bgrun %t %s; description=Backgrounded run of run-mailcap
 audio/*; ~/.mutt/bgrun %t %s; description=Backgrounded run of run-mailcap