Is it a normal action that when you open a programme in a terminal window,
that closing the terminal window also closes the programme?
If you type in a command in your terminal screen then that program is reliant on that terminal screen being there (it is running in the foreground).
If you put a space and a '&' after your command then it will run in the background and not be reliant on that terminal. You will be able to run other commands from that terminal or close it.
$ gtk-gnutella &
If you have run a program in the foreground and want to send it to the background, hit Ctrl-z which will suspend the job. Then you can type bg to resume it in the background. Type jobs to see what's running in the background. You can type fg to bring it back to the foreground if you want.
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Later
David Kirk
