How to run an automator app which launches an X11 app via shell script multiple times So I have an Applescript to launch xemacs, but I thought it would be nice to have something I could drop files onto (and have an app to choose from contextual menus in the "open with" submenu), so I tried making an Automator app.

I called the app "XEmacs Opener.app" and it works... once.  But it will not launch new XEmacs windows (unless I just click the run button from automator itself) until the first one is closed.

I tried running the shell script with nohup, used the '&amp;' to put it in the background, and called exit afterwards, but this does not solve the problem:

nohup /sw/bin/xemacs "$@" &amp;
exit


Here's a screen-shot in case I didn't fully explain how it's set up:



I also tried calling xemacs without any arguments too.  So how can I get this to open up multiple instances of xemacs - or is that not possible?
I figured it out.  I just need to direct the output to /dev/null:

/sw/bin/xemacs "$@" &amp;&gt; /dev/null &amp;


Easy peasy.  The output was getting grabbed by the shell script.  As soo as you redirect both standard out and standard error to /dev/null (i.e. oblivion), the rest of the workflow stops waiting and ends.