plugins/preview-tui     | 2 +-
 plugins/preview-tui-ext | 2 +-

diff --git a/plugins/preview-tui b/plugins/preview-tui
index 5f6a9bd7665cf1676f7500eb7f6cd2f4ae40973b..854907bc68c49329a1be693e77de34eb19725a6e 100755
--- a/plugins/preview-tui
+++ b/plugins/preview-tui
@@ -307,8 +307,8 @@     printf "%s" "$PWD/$1" > "$CURSEL"
     preview_file "$PWD/$1"
     preview_fifo &
     wait "$!"
-    rm "$PAGERPID" "$IMGPID" "$CURSEL" "$FIFO_UEBERZUG" "$FIFOPID" 2>/dev/null
     pkill -P "$$"
+    rm "$PAGERPID" "$IMGPID" "$CURSEL" "$FIFO_UEBERZUG" "$FIFOPID" 2>/dev/null
 else
     if [ ! -r "$NNN_FIFO" ]; then
         clear
diff --git a/plugins/preview-tui-ext b/plugins/preview-tui-ext
index ade673a5e73e4c62b991ef851309b1aee3dd29cb..c88389b91b217c66dcf4aa6e42167ba9acbd98ca 100755
--- a/plugins/preview-tui-ext
+++ b/plugins/preview-tui-ext
@@ -404,8 +404,8 @@     printf "%s" "$PWD/$1" > "$CURSEL"
     preview_file "$PWD/$1"
     preview_fifo &
     wait "$!"
-    rm "$PAGERPID" "$IMGPID" "$CURSEL" "$FIFO_UEBERZUG" "$FIFOPID" 2>/dev/null
     pkill -P "$$"
+    rm "$PAGERPID" "$IMGPID" "$CURSEL" "$FIFO_UEBERZUG" "$FIFOPID" 2>/dev/null
 else
     if [ ! -r "$NNN_FIFO" ]; then
         clear