From 08895e2073988afa414d2ed186ea103c2dfc56f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pol Van Aubel <dev@polvanaubel.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:33:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Warn about spawn without X11 and hook

Don't fail silently. I'd prefer an actual ui notification, but in the
init the ui isn't available.
---
 alot/commands/globals.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/alot/commands/globals.py b/alot/commands/globals.py
index 007a21f41..d7bb8b6b5 100644
--- a/alot/commands/globals.py
+++ b/alot/commands/globals.py
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ def __init__(self, cmd, stdin=None, shell=False, spawn=False,
                 termcmdlist = split_commandstring(term_cmd)
                 cmd = termcmdlist + cmd
             else:
+                logging.warning('unable to handle spawn outside of X11 without touch_external_cmdlist hook set')
                 thread = False
 
         self.cmdlist = cmd