Running applications from Konsole

[z0mbix]

Is there any way to run an application from a konsole without the temrinal then becoming unuseable until the application is closed? I know I can just Alt+F2, but just wondering...

(use Mandrake 8.0 with KDE)

:confused: errrrrr :confused:

[dvdnut]

yep

after you type in the command put an & at the end

it runs it in the background and the only way to kill it would be to kill the pid i think

[Strike]

say you want to run foo

nohup foo &

should do it for any program. Some programs may not need the nohup and some may not even need the &.

[nathaniel]

Originally posted by Strike:
<STRONG>say you want to run foo

nohup foo &

should do it for any program. Some programs may not need the nohup and some may not even need the &.</STRONG>

Just remember if u run with nohup it means even with you pid killing it u may not beable to actually kill it.

My sysadmin let me down load the new RH7.1 isos one night from one of the servers and he had put on a terminal inactive=&gt; close tty so I put a nohup. He was really pissed. much trouble killing the ftp process.

[mrBen]

Also, if you run a program without the & by mistake, if you go back to the console window and type Ctrl-Z it should stop the program. It should say something like this:

[%1] Opera - stopped

Then type 'bg %1' and the program will start running again, but in the background, giving you control of your console again.

HTH