gtkyahoo &

that will run yahoo in background mode, so it's not attached 
to the xterm proccess.  

~ deepak

On Dec 11 2000, at 23:46, Rooster was caught saying:
> just loaded mandrake 7.2 and because i'm always chatting online with 
> friends i decided to load yahoo messenger when done. to open this 
> program i simply have to type the command from a terminal window, but 
> if that terminal window is closed the program also closes. anyway to 
> run a program like that without having to open the terminal window?
> 
> hey, so i'm just a windows guy used to easy shortcuts. maybe i'm just 
> tring to run too many os's over here. but at least i've got a lot 
> covered.
> 
> rooster
> 
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