Am 29. Jan, 2013 schwätzte
joe@actionline.com so:
moin moin Joe,
>
> Thanks James and Hans, but I still can't get either to work.
>
> James: gwenview filename.jpg > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> Hans: gwenview filename.jpg 2>/dev/null &
>
> Both examples work to cause gwenview to open filename.jpg without
> any error messages. However, when I close the terminal window,
> gwenview also closes.
Sounds like your terminal does the wrong thing :).
Try this:
nohup gwenview filename.jpg >/dev/null 2>&1 &
ciao,
der.hans
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> -----------
>> Put an '&' at the end to run the command in the background,
>> then you can close the terminal.
>>
>> gwenview filename.jpg 2>/dev/null &
>>
>> This will also work for within a script if you want the script
>> to move on directly after launching gwenview.
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