On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > What I can see, as a user, is that, if I run xterm (or rxvt, or > gnome-terminal, they behave the same) from a terminal window, the shell > is blocked because the new terminal process is in the foreground, and the > shell waits for it to complete before giving me back the prompt.
> If I do the same with xfce4-terminal, I immediately get the prompt
> back: this is because (my guess of course) xfce4-terminal forks on
> startup, or does a similar trick to run in the background; this causes
> the shell (or Sylpheed) to think the process terminated, and returns
> to do its stuff.
Ah!
Oh right, ok I can see what you mean. I'm not in front of a linux box
to test but this at the moment but I'll try it when I'm at home.
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