Launching gedit causes autokey to no longer accept responses

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Launching gedit causes autokey to no longer accept responses

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Same here:

text = clipboard.get_selection()
kommando = "firefox 'http://www.google.de/search?q=%s'" % text
x = system.exec_command(kommando)

This freezes AutoKey. After closing Firefox, AutoKey will work again.
(Ubuntu 9.10, AutoKey 0.61.0)

Original comment by [email protected] on 28 Nov 2009 at 5:05

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The reason is because system.exec_command waits for the process to exit before 
it
returns, hence blocking the thread in autokey that handles all the expansions. 

Try adding an ampersand to the end of your command (&).

Original comment by cdekter on 24 Mar 2010 at 11:22

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OK no that won't help...

Added additional optional argument for system.exec_command in v0.61.6 - set 
getOutput
to False if you don't care about the output of the command. This way autokey 
won't
block if the command does not return to the shell immediately (e.g. like gedit 
does)

Original comment by cdekter on 25 Mar 2010 at 1:18

• Changed state: Fixed