run something not attached to xterm
 

I prepared this small script, its like this


#!/bin/bash
#restart the stuck firefox

killall firefox
sleep 5
firefox
done

it fires firefox but it doesn't ends before I close firefox,

What I want it to do is this script to fire up a firefox and close itself, I want firefox to keep running even if I close that xterm, just like firefox started from gnome panel.

I would also love if someone explains what actually happens when i click firefox icon from gnome, does it run unattached or does it run attached to tty7 or tty1 ?

Do instead of ... this will prevent it from closing firefox when you close the terminal.

See man nohup for more details

firefox &

Or if this is on fedora, and firefox is the default browser, you can run htmlview which is a helper program.
Try opening a terminal and running htmlview and see what happens.

nohup got the job done, is there anything I should know about it, is it secure use on a server for other purposes,

edit: it didn't worked as I wanted on script, still after execution of firefox script stands still, it doesn't ends,


is it possible to pass an command to gnome "Run Application" (alt-f2) from a shell?

"nohup firefox &" got the job done

pass a command to gnome "Run Application"
 

is it possible to pass a command to gnome "Run Application" from a shell?

Hi JoeJoe,

Not sure what you mean - do you mean initialize a GNOME/GUI session from a terminal session? If that's the case CTRL-ALT-F7 will do this in Fedora/RHEL/CentOS.

Alternately, from a terminal session issuing the following command will startup a GUisession:

The thingy which opens with alt+f2 at gnome, the run application dialog, can I pass a command to it from a terminal?

I am not sure what are you exactly trying to do.

If you want to run, let's say, firefox from a terminal, why not just launch "firefox" from the command line instead of using that toy in the middle?

Exactly - if you wish to run an application; you don't need a "Run" dialog - from the terminal you can execute the binary which will run the application.

i need the software to run exacly as I clicked it from GUI, independently,without a terminal hanging around the screen (ps: nohup doesn't works in my target PC,)

You may try disown:

I just run works fine for me.

Hi

You can also run in a screen:

After doing the above the xclock should be running. Thereafter you hit CTRL+A+D and this will detach you from the screen with the xclock still running. Exiting the terminal should leave the xclock still running.