Mike, 'adding nohup to gwenvirew' equates to 'running gwenvirew as a
daemon', which can be easily done (if you know how).
Simplistically, you fork the program, disown the child (which then becomes
child of init, which is PID 1) and exit the parent.
Give at shot, it'll keep you entertained... ;-)
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Michael Havens writes:
> why couldn't he add nohup to the gwenvirew program? I mean, isn't that the
> point of opensource?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:09 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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