Re: How to run 'feh' in the background of a script?

From: joe@actionline.com
> I'd like to be able to use something like this:
> feh -x -g 400x400 image.jpg; kwrite textfile.txt <E>
>
> And have the image remain on the screen while kwrite opens the text
> file for editing.

Something like this:

#!/bin/bash
display image.jpg &
kwrite textfile.txt
# end of script

...in bash, putting an & at the end of a line tells the shell "run this
process in the background". You can see this working in the old-school
.xinitrc files that would start various X clients with & before starting the
window manager without &.

The snippet above will display image.jpg , but when you quit kwrite, the
script will reach its end and exit. The background processes that the script
started will receive a HUP when the script exits. So when you quit kwrite,
the display process will get HUPped and exit too.

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