apps and sub-apps

darthaxul · 10-29-2008, 11:01 PM

I noticed some window managers on my computer have one main terminal that spawns other apps. But if i close that main terminal every other app closes.
Is that something to do with my dbus not working properly because I wanted to be able to close the main terminal and still use my apps but i cant when it looks like this.
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[HTML]main terminal
|
app-1
app-2
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app-3[/HTML]

arizonagroovejet · 10-30-2008, 12:38 PM

Can you provide a specific example?

Say you're using KDE and at a command prompt in a Konsole window you launch Gimp by typing

Code:

$ gimp

Now if you close that Konsole window then Gimp will also close. If you launch Gimp like this:

Code:

$ gimp & disown

Then close the Konsole window then Gimp stay running.

Is this the sort of thing you're talking about?

darthaxul · 10-30-2008, 01:32 PM

yeah I know the & doesnt tie up terminal but i dont have disown command.
Is there any way to put that disown command in a config file so I dont have to type it all the time?

arizonagroovejet · 10-30-2008, 02:05 PM

Not that I'm aware of. I don't think you'd want to anyway, you don't want to run stuff like ls with &disown on the end.

Why won't you just launch stuff from a menu or something like the alt-f2 launcher that both KDE and Gnome have rather then launching everything from a command prompt?