fork dmenu_run to disown child shell
[dmenu.git] / dmenu_run
index 3858796..2bb1dfd 100755 (executable)
--- a/dmenu_run
+++ b/dmenu_run
@@ -1,2 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu ${1+"$@"}` && exec "$exe"
+cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
+if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
+       cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
+else
+       cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache
+fi
+(
+       IFS=:
+       if [ "`ls -dt $PATH "$cache" | head -n 1`" != "$cache" ]; then
+               lsx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
+       else
+               dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
+       fi
+) | ${SHELL:-"/bin/sh"} &