From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36106 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: External MIME viewers are killed when switching article. Why? Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 14:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: <87oftae0pj.fsf@wesley.springies.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171747 6799 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29355 invoked by alias); 3 May 2001 18:44:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29350 invoked from network); 3 May 2001 18:44:32 -0000 Original-Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (HELO mta4) (167.206.5.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 3 May 2001 18:44:32 -0000 Original-Received: from wesley.springies.com (ool-18baf7fb.dyn.optonline.net [24.186.247.251]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0GCR00LXXVU1D4@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 03 May 2001 14:39:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from ats by wesley.springies.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14vO0o-0007t0-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2001 14:39:38 -0400 In-reply-to: Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/21.0.102 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36106 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36106 Jaap-Henk Hoepman writes: > I tried specifying a small wrapper to handle the MIME type which in > turn spawns the real application in the background, but this doesn't > work. Apparently, Xemacs, when asked to delete a process, sends > SIGHUP to _all_ processes in the process group. Well, you could nohup the application. You'll also have to make sure the file it's loading is still there when it's done loading, since iirc, Gnus will delete the file after the helper-app returns. Something like cp $1 $TMPDIR/$1.$$ nohup soffice $TMPDIR/$1.$$ -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! Apathy Club meeting this Friday. If you want to come, you're not invited.