7 files changed, 72 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/README b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/README
index d23b69ad53..5389503ddf 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/README
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/README
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@ j4-dmenu-desktop is a replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop. Its purpose
 is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application
 using dmenu.
 
-When j4-dmenu-desktop starts an application that runs in a terminal, by
-default it uses i3-sensible-terminal. If you'd rather use a different
-terminal emulator, set TERMINAL in the script's environment. Example:
+When j4-dmenu-desktop starts an application that runs in a terminal,
+by default it uses i3-sensible-terminal if it's installed on the build
+host, or xterm if not. If you'd rather use a different terminal emulator,
+set TERMINAL in the script's environment. Example:
 
-# TERMINAL=xterm ./j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild
+# TERMINAL=urxvt ./j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.1 b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.1
index 1bb92f4307..9994141eb6 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.1
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.1
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 .\" ========================================================================
 .\"
 .IX Title "J4-DMENU-DESKTOP 1"
-.TH J4-DMENU-DESKTOP 1 "2014-03-10" "20140310" "SlackBuilds.org"
+.TH J4-DMENU-DESKTOP 1 "2014-07-24" "20140724" "SlackBuilds.org"
 .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
 .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
 .if n .ad l
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Determines the command used to invoke dmenu. Default is \*(L"dmenu
 Display binary name after each entry (off by default).
 .IP "\-\-term=<command>" 4
 .IX Item "--term=<command>"
-Sets the terminal emulator used to start terminal apps. Default is _TERMINAL_.
+Sets the terminal emulator used to start terminal apps. Default is \fB_TERMINAL_\fR.
 .IP "\-\-help" 4
 .IX Item "--help"
 Display help message.
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild
index 4501d44476..93dbf04ebb 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.SlackBuild
@@ -9,12 +9,19 @@
 # Zip file created with:
 # wget -O j4-dmenu-desktop-$(date +%Y%m%d).zip https://github.com/enkore/j4-dmenu-desktop/archive/master.zip
 
+# 20140724 bkw: updated to 20140724 snapshot.
+# - Default to TERMINAL=xterm if i3-sensible-terminal not installed
+#   on build host. Can still set TERMINAL in env to override.
+# - Fix hangs caused by using an interactive shell when there's no
+#   controlling terminal. Thanks to crumb on ##slackware for the
+#   bug report.
+
 # 20140310 bkw: updated to 20140310 snapshot.
 # - Added man page
 # - Added default terminal selection
 
 PRGNAM=j4-dmenu-desktop
-VERSION=${VERSION:-20140310}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-20140724}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -60,8 +67,23 @@ find -L . \
  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
-# for users who don't use i3, let them pick the default terminal.
-TERMINAL="${TERMINAL:-i3-sensible-terminal}"
+# For some reason, j4-dmenu-desktop uses "bash -i -c <command>" to execute
+# the user's choice. bash -i means interactive shell... which causes it to
+# hang if there's no controlling terminal. No idea why upstream wanted the -i
+# option in the first place, I've asked but not gotten an answer.
+patch -p1 < $CWD/no_interactive_shell.diff
+
+# For users who don't use i3, let them pick the default terminal.
+# If TERMINAL not set, and i3-sensible-terminal not installed, just
+# default to xterm.
+if which i3-sensible-terminal &>/dev/null; then
+  DEFTERM="i3-sensible-terminal"
+else
+  DEFTERM="xterm"
+fi
+
+TERMINAL="${TERMINAL:-$DEFTERM}"
+echo "Using TERMINAL=$TERMINAL"
 sed -i "s,i3-sensible-terminal,$TERMINAL,g" src/Main.hh
 
 # Don't use 'make install', it wants to run the tests, which require
@@ -91,7 +113,7 @@ cp -a CHANGELOG LICENSE README.md $CWD/$PRGNAM.pod $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
-cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+sed "s,_TERMINAL_,$TERMINAL,g" $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 
 cd $PKG
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.info b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.info
index 8f95b77fd4..3db203cc5e 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.info
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.info
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 PRGNAM="j4-dmenu-desktop"
-VERSION="20140310"
+VERSION="20140724"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.j4tools.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://urchlay.naptime.net/~urchlay/src/j4-dmenu-desktop-20140310.zip"
+DOWNLOAD="http://urchlay.naptime.net/~urchlay/src/j4-dmenu-desktop-20140724.zip"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
-MD5SUM="0132473fa2fcd03ed4d70d4ec8371890"
+MD5SUM="698d7ee1ae8e479ba5280af68df0d26f"
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="dmenu"
 MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.pod b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.pod
index 0d92f48a36..d881709ad2 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.pod
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop.pod
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# pod2man --stderr -r20140310 -s1 -cSlackBuilds.org -nJ4-DMENU-DESKTOP < j4-dmenu-desktop.pod > j4-dmenu-desktop.1
+# pod2man --stderr -r20140724 -s1 -cSlackBuilds.org j4-dmenu-desktop.pod > j4-dmenu-desktop.1
 
 =pod
 
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Display binary name after each entry (off by default).
 
 =item --term=<command>
 
-Sets the terminal emulator used to start terminal apps. Default is _TERMINAL_.
+Sets the terminal emulator used to start terminal apps. Default is B<_TERMINAL_>.
 
 =item --help
 
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/no_interactive_shell.diff b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/no_interactive_shell.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..252130addc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/no_interactive_shell.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+diff -Naur j4-dmenu-desktop-master/src/Applications.hh j4-dmenu-desktop-master.patched/src/Applications.hh
+--- j4-dmenu-desktop-master/src/Applications.hh	2014-05-27 07:02:41.000000000 -0400
++++ j4-dmenu-desktop-master.patched/src/Applications.hh	2014-07-24 15:23:39.000000000 -0400
+@@ -44,10 +44,11 @@
+ 		if((shell = getenv("SHELL")) == 0)
+ 		    shell = "/bin/sh";
+ 		
+-		fprintf(stderr, "%s -i -c '%s'\n", shell, choice.c_str());
++		fprintf(stderr, "%s -c '%s'\n", shell, choice.c_str());
+ 		
+ 		// -i -c was tested with both bash and zsh.
+-		exit(execl(shell, shell, "-i", "-c",  choice.c_str(), 0));
++		// 20140724 bkw: remove -i, it causes problems.
++		exit(execl(shell, shell, "-c",  choice.c_str(), 0));
+ 	    }
+ 
+             // +1 b/c there must be whitespace we add back later...
+diff -Naur j4-dmenu-desktop-master/src/Main.hh j4-dmenu-desktop-master.patched/src/Main.hh
+--- j4-dmenu-desktop-master/src/Main.hh	2014-05-27 07:02:41.000000000 -0400
++++ j4-dmenu-desktop-master.patched/src/Main.hh	2014-07-24 15:28:38.000000000 -0400
+@@ -47,9 +47,10 @@
+             if((shell = getenv("SHELL")) == 0)
+                 shell = "/bin/sh";
+ 
+-	    fprintf(stderr, "%s -i -c '%s'\n", shell, command.c_str());
++	    fprintf(stderr, "%s -c '%s'\n", shell, command.c_str());
+ 
+-            return execl(shell, shell, "-i", "-c", command.c_str(), 0);
++		 // 20140724 bkw: get rid of -i, it causes problems.
++            return execl(shell, shell, "-c", command.c_str(), 0);
+         }
+         return 0;
+     }
diff --git a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/slack-desc b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/slack-desc
index bc84c2f07c..3c9ba802de 100644
--- a/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/slack-desc
+++ b/desktop/j4-dmenu-desktop/slack-desc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ j4-dmenu-desktop: j4-dmenu-desktop is a replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop. Its pu
 j4-dmenu-desktop: is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application
 j4-dmenu-desktop: using dmenu.
 j4-dmenu-desktop:
-j4-dmenu-desktop:
+j4-dmenu-desktop: This package built with _TERMINAL_ as default terminal.
 j4-dmenu-desktop:
 j4-dmenu-desktop:
 j4-dmenu-desktop: