Keep gdu open when spawning shell

[Tungstwenty]

I use the new 'b' shortcut to quickly open a shell on a folder that is of interest to me and it's very useful.
One thing I think could be improved is if the shell would be opened without killing gdu, so that after exiting the shell I would still have all the data loaded, the same folder selected, etc. in order to investigate the next problematic folder and so on.
Much like the way you can user "! ..." in vi to spawn a shell and resume where you were once the shell ends.

[dundee]

Unfortunately I wasn't able to implement this with the current terminal library (https://github.com/rivo/tview). There is possibility to pause the interface of the application, but it was not working for me properly, the user interface froze after returning back from shell.

[Tungstwenty]

Did you have a look at this issue on their tracker? rivo/tview#244
There's some reproducer code there and indication that the issue is now fixed (if it's the same, that is)

[dundee]

Thanks for link, I will try to investigate more.

[rashil2000]

...but it was not working for me properly, the user interface froze after returning back from shell.

Hi @dundee

I ran the latest build v5.7.0 (on Windows) but I'm still facing this, the UI hangs after exiting the shell.

[dundee]

...but it was not working for me properly, the user interface froze after returning back from shell.

Hi @dundee

I ran the latest build v5.7.0 (on Windows) but I'm still facing this, the UI hangs after exiting the shell.

Thanks, I will try to investigate it.

[rashil2000]

Hi @dundee, any updates on this?

Still facing it on 5.9.0.

[dundee]

Hi @dundee, any updates on this?

Still facing it on 5.9.0.

We will have to wait till rivo/tview#244 is fixed.

[rashil2000]

Would it be a good idea to exit gdu on Windows (when the shell is exited, just like the initial behavior), till the upstream bug is fixed?

[dundee]

Yes, that will be a good work-around. I have created issue for this - #101

[rashil2000]

Thanks!