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I have another small question that I could do with finding out. I remember once being told that it was possible to send a process created at the console to the background. For example, if I typed
$ kwrite
at the console, it would launch the application but leave the console useless until it was closed. Therefore, is there a way, once this has been done, to unlink the process from the console, hence leaving the application open and making the console usable again. I know that it can be done using:
$ kwrite &
But I don't always remember the '&'.
Is this possible? Or am I just going crazy?
Many thanks
Radam
PS. Is it therefore also possible to relink a process with the console window?
PPS. Sorry for any poor terminology, i'm still getting the hang of Linux
OS: Mandrake Official 10.0
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I might have misinterpreted your question , but , u r in a graphical enviroment right? , anyway CTRL Z usually puts a job to the background and u get a bash prompt back , then if u type: - jobs , all the backgrounded processes r given a 'job No' the u can type:- fg(job No) and that job will be brought to the fore. I'm not at me linuxbox at the mo so thats from memeory , but think its more or less accurate.
if u need the background process to keep running rather than remain in suspended state .... after staring the program press CTRL Z and type bg (background). the program u invoked earlier will keep running in the background rather than remain suspended
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