Starting something from the gnome-terminal

[Phil Dobbin]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> When I start something from the gnome-terminal, then exit the
> terminal, that something also exits. How can I prevent that from
> happening?
> 
> For example:
> Open the gnome-terminal
> Type something like
> $ SomeApp --SomeParameter=Something &
> $ exit
> 
> What happens is that when exiting the gnome-terminal, ”SomeApp” is
> also terminated. I need to know how to start something from the
> gnome-terminal that is not ”connected” to the terminal at all.
> Any ideas?

As has been noted, screen is a good candidate for this.

Also there is tmux &, best of all in my opinion, byobu.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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