[Solved] Launch GUI application and detach it from terminal

Question

Hello, I find it convenient launching apps from terminal, but after that I am unable to use the terminal, since it it's "attached" to the process. Some searching revealed 2 methods of doing this, but they both don't work for me
1) add "&" after the command: upon closing the terminal the application closes as well; not what I want
2) press ctrl+z: this just closes the app
So how do I type a command to launch a GUI app and continue using the terminal?
I am using mate-terminal.
Last edited by axper (2013-02-11 19:14:08)

Answer 1

kaszak696 wrote:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157405
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I wanted (for Bash):
olive wrote:
You can disown them (man bash). I have put
PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND; }'disown -a -h'
in my ~/.bashrc with the effect that if you launch a program in the background (with &). It will not be stopped when you close the terminal.
For Zsh, put this in your .zshrc
precmd_disown() {
emulate -L zsh
setopt extendedglob
local job match mbegin mend
jobs | while read job; do
if [[ $job = \[(#b)([[:digit:]]##)\]*running* ]]; then
disown %$match[1]
fi
done
autoload -U add-zsh-hook
add-zsh-hook precmd precmd_disown
(from http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2010/msg00654.html)
Last edited by axper (2013-06-29 07:47:21)