Running programs with shell

Plmajholm · 01-07-2005, 03:33 AM

Is there any way of starting a GUI program from shell and not run it trough that shell?
(So i can close that terminal window and keep the GUI program).

Thanks.
//Plmajholm

Dark_Helmet · 01-07-2005, 03:48 AM

You can try something like this:

Code:

firefox &

The & tells the shell to "background" the process and detaches it from the terminal.

Plmajholm · 01-07-2005, 04:22 AM

Thanks!!!

scuzzman · 01-07-2005, 05:10 AM

if you forget to append the &, you can background the process this way:

Code:

$ firefox
<Ctrl>+Z
$ bg

firefox - launches firefox, successfully ties up your shell
<Ctrl>+Z - Hold Ctrl, press Z - suspend the process
bg - stick a suspended process in the background

if you have multiple suspended processes, get the process number with

Code:

$ps

and background it with

Code:

$bg PROC_NUM

replacing PROC_NUM with the process number.

Enjoy

basileus · 01-08-2005, 05:06 AM

You can also use

jobs

to see which jobs are running from the terminal, for example my jobs:

[1]+ Stopped less
[2]- Stopped nano

As said, Ctrl-Z stops running program (puts it on above joblist)

bg %1 would - in case above - background "less", and bg %2 would do so to "nano"

fg %<number> in contrary activates the chosen program.

This is in my opinion easier than to use "ps" to see which process to background