John Love-Jensen wrote:
you will probably be
able to get better accuracy, deeper knowledge, and faster answers on a more
appropriate forum.
To run a program in the background, with the bash shell, you can do this:
myapp &
If you want to run it in the background disconnected from your current
session (so if you exit your bash shell, the app stays running) you can do
this:
(myapp &) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
Beats me why so many systems have begun requiring that </dev/null.
Maybe I'll get used to it.
Also useful on a linux text-only installation are the screen program,
and the alt-1 alt-2 etc methods for switching screens.
