Gedit unresponsive when opened from terminal

Linux2016 · 07-23-2016, 04:00 PM

Whenever I open a script from terminal, I then exit gedit with ctrl+z, which causes the program to hang for seconds until it ends.

michaelk · 07-23-2016, 04:19 PM

The program shortcut to exit is ctrl+q. ctrl+z actually sends the program to the background which causes it to appear to hang and then eventually stop.

What are you trying to accomplish and are you trying to send gedit to the background on purpose?

Linux2016 · 07-23-2016, 04:40 PM

OK, then it's just a problem of using the wrong shortcut. I'm doing some light scripting on Python which is just stuff printed on the terminal. I don't know what sending gedit to the background is used for.

michaelk · 07-23-2016, 05:02 PM

FYI

http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/a/multitasking.htm

Linux2016 · 07-23-2016, 05:46 PM

Thank you for the info.

CTRL+q actually closes the program I'm working with. What I meant to ask was if it was possible to exit gedit 'on the terminal' while it kept working (probably not separable processes?), in order to keep using the terminal while I read/modify the gedit script on its window.

Opening multiple terminals (CTRL+shift+n) allows me to do this but I wonder if it's possible with just one terminal instance.

RockDoctor · 07-23-2016, 06:55 PM

I think what you want is Ctrl-Z to stop gedit, followed by "bg" (without the quotes) to unsuspend gedit into the background. Here's how it looks when I did it with geany. Ctrl-Z shows up as ^Z; what I typed is shown in green. I can now worked with geany and with the terminal.

Code:

~$ geany

^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 geany
~$ bg
[1]+ geany &
~$

robertdaleweir · 07-24-2016, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RockDoctor

I think what you want is Ctrl-Z to stop gedit, followed by "bg" (without the quotes) to unsuspend gedit into the background. Here's how it looks when I did it with geany. Ctrl-Z shows up as ^Z; what I typed is shown in green. I can now worked with geany and with the terminal.

Code:

~$ geany

^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 geany
~$ bg
[1]+ geany &
~$

Hi RockDoctor
Just invoke gedit with the following code

Code:

gedit &

. This will leave your terminal available for use while putting 'gedit' in the background.

pan64 · 07-24-2016, 12:32 PM

ctrl-z is suspend, not exit. You can check it by executing: stty -a

Quote:

speed 38400 baud; rows 34; columns 125; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = M-^?; start = ^Q; stop = ^S;
susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke

And suspend means no terminal i/o is possible, therefore the program will stop immediately when it tries to write to the terminal (or just when it waits for input). Exit is usually Ctrl-C (intr).

Linux2016 · 07-24-2016, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertdaleweir

Hi RockDoctor
Just invoke gedit with the following code

Code:

gedit &

. This will leave your terminal available for use while putting 'gedit' in the background.

This does exactly what I need. So simple and useful.

hydrurga · 07-25-2016, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linux2016

This does exactly what I need. So simple and useful.

Excellent. If you could mark the thread as "Solved" (see Thread Tools), then that would be great. Many thanks.