Akintayo Holder wrote:
> Does anyone know how to have a program start in the foreground from an
> xterm, and continue running from the prompt after exiting X.
>
> e.g.
> Can an ftp download started from X keep running after closing X without
> being in the background ?.
> --
> If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything
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I don't know whether this is possible or not, but you can use another
console, or the console which you started X to start running something,
i.e. you can Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Z, bg and then start the job you want, and
return to X with Ctrl-Alt-F7.
