Add "open" function to fork xdg-open

[khome.git] / home / lib / login_functions.sh

diff --git a/home/lib/login_functions.sh b/home/lib/login_functions.sh
index 3a21209..7bd88cb 100644 (file)
--- a/home/lib/login_functions.sh
+++ b/home/lib/login_functions.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
 #
 
+## open : string -> unit
+##
+## Fork xdg-open so we don't block current terminal session when opening
+## things like pdf files. For example:
+##
+##    open book.pdf
+##
+open() {
+    (xdg-open "$1" &) &
+}
+
+## notify_done : unit -> unit
+notify_done() {
+    local -r _status_code="$?"
+    local -r _program="$1"
+    local _timestamp
+    _timestamp="$(timestamp)"
+    local -r _msg="$_timestamp [$_program] done "
+    if [[ "$_status_code" -eq 0 ]]
+    then
+        notify-send -u normal "$_msg OK: $_status_code"
+    else
+        notify-send -u critical "$_msg ERROR: $_status_code"
+    fi
+}
+
 ## p : string -> unit
 p() {
     awk \