dmenu

my fork of dmenu
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commit 8a066fabd9796ca80f5a359c3c6cf57c947b1b95
parent 6c0e05eb0d297a0d26080bea3b6040ab14ad65ae
Author: Anselm R. Garbe <arg@suckless.org>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:44:41 +0100

if isatty() first read from stdin and then grab the keyboard, otherwise first grab the keyboard and then read from stdin
Diffstat:
Mmain.c | 27+++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ drawmenu(void) {
     XFlush(dpy);
 }
 
+static void
+grabkeyboard(void) {
+    while(XGrabKeyboard(dpy, root, True, GrabModeAsync,
+             GrabModeAsync, CurrentTime) != GrabSuccess)
+        usleep(1000);
+}
+
 static unsigned long
 initcolor(const char *colstr) {
     Colormap cmap = DefaultColormap(dpy, screen);
@@ -418,12 +425,6 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     XModifierKeymap *modmap;
     XSetWindowAttributes wa;
 
-    if(argc == 2 && !strncmp("-v", argv[1], 3))
-        eprint("dmenu-"VERSION", (C)opyright MMVI-MMVII Anselm R. Garbe\n");
-    else if(isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
-        fputs("error: dmenu can't run in an interactive shell\n", stdout);
-        usage();
-    }
     /* command line args */
     for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
         if(!strncmp(argv[i], "-b", 3)) {
@@ -447,6 +448,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         else if(!strncmp(argv[i], "-sf", 4)) {
             if(++i < argc) selfg = argv[i];
         }
+        else if(!strncmp(argv[i], "-v", 3))
+            eprint("dmenu-"VERSION", (C)opyright MMVI-MMVII Anselm R. Garbe\n");
         else
             usage();
     setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
@@ -455,10 +458,14 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         eprint("dmenu: cannot open display\n");
     screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
     root = RootWindow(dpy, screen);
-    while(XGrabKeyboard(dpy, root, True, GrabModeAsync,
-             GrabModeAsync, CurrentTime) != GrabSuccess)
-        usleep(1000);
-    maxname = readstdin();
+    if(isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
+        maxname = readstdin();
+        grabkeyboard();
+    }
+    else { /* prevent keypress loss */
+        grabkeyboard();
+        maxname = readstdin();
+    }
     /* init modifier map */
     modmap = XGetModifierMapping(dpy);
     for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {