No this is for a prog I d/loaded myself.

 It is called Gnutella and is a p2p software.

I would prefer to set it up as a desktop icon, how hard is this to do?

Bernard


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Opening programmes with a terminal window

yes

is the program not in your menu system though?

On Tue, 09 May 2006 13:23:12 +1200
Bernard wrote:

> 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
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:47 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Later
> 
> David Kirk
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