Dunno, but can't you just ALT-F1 to a tty and start the process, then ALT-F7 back and kill your X?
There may be some way to do what you want, but it seems to me that when you kill the X terminal you're going to kill all of the child processes with it, foreground or not. J Jesse Kline wrote: > How do I background a job in an x-terminal, and have it resume in a > console so that I can restart the x-server without stopping the job? > > TIA, > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
