Can you make icons for programmes so for
the technically challenged and for kids of course! You can click on the icon to
open the prog rather than going via a terminal window?
Bernard
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From: David Kirk
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Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:47
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Subject: Re: Opening programmes with
a terminal window
Bernard,
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
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