X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=xscreensaver;a=blobdiff_plain;f=hacks%2Fvidwhacker;h=a2ab029b99c0cb54e99b8660e75ada37f0bde51e;hp=7bbc4079b920fbadd506fa1d78107ad44e8fed9e;hb=481b95e2617b69e6fd4444432747d7e1e0c3dc85;hpb=0bd2eabab3e404c6769fe8f59b639275e960c415

diff --git a/hacks/vidwhacker b/hacks/vidwhacker
index 7bbc4079..a2ab029b 100755
--- a/hacks/vidwhacker
+++ b/hacks/vidwhacker
@@ -308,8 +308,11 @@ main() {
       if [ -s $tmp_ppm2 ]; then
         if [ "$verbose" = true ]; then
           echo "launching xv $xvargs $tmp_ppm2" >&2
+	  ls -lF $tmp_ppm2
         fi
-        xv $xvargs $tmp_ppm2 &
+
+	# cat the file so that we can nuke it without racing against xv.
+        cat $tmp_ppm2 | xv $xvargs - &
         pid=$!
       fi
     fi
@@ -324,4 +327,4 @@ main() {
 main $@
 
 # to find stray xv data:
-# xwininfo -root -children|grep 'xv image comments' | awk '{print $1}'
+# xwininfo -root -children|grep 'xv image comments' | awk '{print "xkill -id ", $1}'