I'm sure this is a silly question
Reuben D. Budiardja
techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Wed Apr 6 21:09:56 UTC 2005
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:55, Birt, Jeffrey wrote:
> I'm sure this is a silly question, but.....
> I have an application that is started by a script in .kde/Autostart.
> When this app is started a console window appears, if the console window
> is closed the app stops. I know, duh! (of course the same thing happens
> when you launch it manually from a console window) (BTW, it's a helper
> app for MetaVNC that handles clipboard functions)
Put an ampersand after your command to run it in the background. For example,
you can type this in console:
gedit &
Now if you close the console, gedit will still be running.
RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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