Shift-F6 Detach from the session, but do not logout.
Below is a list of boybu-shortcuts that might come in handy for your first steps: I can really recommend byobu for other reasons too. You basically run the program in a terminal of its own. And the & at the end puts the process in the background.Īlso terminal multiplexing using screen or byobu. The 2>&1 /dev/null redirects the shell output to nowhere (suppressing the output). The brackets open a new subshell to run gedit in. myprogram > foo.out 2> bar.err &1 /dev/null &) Maybe you will want to redirect the shell output as well and your program a pseudo input source, so: nohup. If you know you want to decouple beforehand you would use: Nohup is not always present on all machines. After that you can decouple it from terminal using disown -h %. You get a list of running jobs with their jobId using jobs. Then you can put in in the brackground using bg (e.g. There are different ways depending on what you want to do exactly:ĭisown -h is the way to go if you want to do that with an already running program (i.e. Suppose gedit is the program you want to run detached (aka. Tab completion should be case-insensitive. This gives you more extensive tab completion. Thereafter, you will see something like the following (depends on your gnome-terminal theme): # Copyright (C) 2006 by Johannes Zellner, To check if it works, run this little script: This change will be available not only in vim, but for all your terminal applications.
Just include the line below into your $HOME/.bashrc (preferably in the last line of the file):Īnd save it.