Sometimes it fails to execute the selected command due to issue finding the process ID to kil about sway-launcher-desktop HOT 8 CLOSED

That's the error I get sometimes:

./sway-launcher-desktop.sh: line 189: kill: (5127) - No such process

Here is says line 189, but I think it's related to line 183:

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I'm going to close here since #10 essentially handles what you suggested as well

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Thanks for the report! I think I know what you are talking about and I am glad I know where to start looking now.

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great, thank you!

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I wonder why that can happen. The whole problem is that pipe is still open after fzf finishes so the script cannot proceed. The solution is taken straight from here: junegunn/fzf#880

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Based on the assumption that the process is simply already destroyed for reasons I currently do not understand, we can probably safely move on here. I made a change so that it always returns successfully even if it cannot find a process. Could you please have a look @asahaf ?

I hope this fixes the problem without creating 2 new ones

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I'll give it a try, thanks

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@Biont The workaround solved the issue.

I think we can move the kill command, for the tail process, inside the same clean up trap that deletes the temp files, placing kill command before deleting the temp files.

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