Merge pull request #4565 from stapelberg/skip

i3-dmenu-desktop: ignore duplicate files and directories

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES-next b/RELEASE-NOTES-next
index f9c1a4f1..0e1e83d7 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES-next
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES-next
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ option is enabled and only then sets a screenshot as background.
   • i3-nagbar: add option to position on primary monitor
   • alternate focusing tab/stack children-parent containers by clicking on their titlebars
   • i3bar: use first bar config by default
+  • i3-dmenu-desktop: ignore duplicate files and directories (fixes crash on NixOS)
   • i3-dump-log -f now uses UNIX sockets instead of pthreads. The UNIX socket approach
     should be more reliable and also more portable.
   • Implement the include config directive
diff --git a/i3-dmenu-desktop b/i3-dmenu-desktop
index 07fe8336..09670f65 100755
--- a/i3-dmenu-desktop
+++ b/i3-dmenu-desktop
@@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ find(
         },
         no_chdir => 1,
         follow_fast => 1,
+        # Ignore any duplicate files and directories and proceed normally:
+        follow_skip => 2,
     },
     @searchdirs
 );