Am 29. Jan, 2013 schwätzte joe@actionline.com so:

>
>> Sounds like your terminal does the wrong thing :).
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> nohup gwenview filename.jpg >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> Thanks very much! This works. I gwenview now stays open when I
> closet terminal.
>
> So I just have to wonder, is there perhaps yet a further syntax
> option so that gwenview stays open and terminal automatically closes
> without requiring the extra step of manually closing it?

exit the shell :)

nohup gwenview filename.jpg >/dev/null 2>&1 &
exit

ciao,

der.hans
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