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Fix for run-in-terminal

May 25, 2025 — BarryK

run-in-terminal is a very handy entry in the right-click menu, introduced here:

https://bkhome.org/news/202411/rox-right-click-run-in-terminal.html

Forum member don570 reported strange behaviour:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=149044#p149044

Forum member Caramel suggested a fix. I fiddled around with a few things, and found this fixed it:

https://github.com/bkauler/woofq/commit/6a52f484ee3d6eedf5cd1f775d6086ad25fc0721

The 'setsid' utility was discussed awhile back in this blog:

https://bkhome.org/news/202009/detach-child-process-from-parent.html    

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