Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
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.
Better yet:
gedit >/dev/null 2>&1 &
(redirect both stdout and stderr to /dev/null and run program in
background).
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