program continues running without keeping terminal open?

[hatten]

If i use the command "Transmission", transmission will start and everything. But is there an option or similar that continues having it running "in the background" so that i don't need to have a terminal open for every program i use.
"man Transmission" didn't help me.

[howefield]

Open it from the menu option.

Applications > Internet > Transmission Bittorrent Client

Or use the run box, press ALT + F2 and type transmission


Or have I misunderstood ?

[lykwydchykyn]

If you append a "&" to the end of the command line, it will run in the background. If you prepend it with the command "nohup", it will continue to run if the terminal is closed. So you'd want to do like this:


nohup Transmission &


If you forget to use "nohup" before launching a command, you can find the process id and disown it like this:

disown 1111

Where 1111 is the process id of the process you want to disown.

If you forget the &, you can hit ctrl-z to suspend the process, then "bg" to cause it to continue in the background.

[hatten]

If you append a "&" to the end of the command line, it will run in the background. If you prepend it with the command "nohup", it will continue to run if the terminal is closed. So you'd want to do like this:


nohup Transmission &


If you forget to use "nohup" before launching a command, you can find the process id and disown it like this:

disown 1111

Where 1111 is the process id of the process you want to disown.

If you forget the &, you can hit ctrl-z to suspend the process, then "bg" to cause it to continue in the background.
perfect, thanks:popcorn:

[hatten]

how do i find the ID of a program?

[howefield]

System > Administration > System Monitor

5th column in the processes tab.

[hatten]

and in the terminal?

[howefield]

Try pidof program, eg

pidof pidgin


man pidof

[lykwydchykyn]

You can get a full list of processes with their id's using:
ps -e

[jpeddicord]

This thread or post has been moved from the Desktop Effects & Customization forum as the posted content is considered off-topic.

Desktop Effects & Customization is a forum for discussing:

Compositing managers such as Compiz
Themes (window themes, widget themes, backgrounds, etc)
Appearance preferences

Your post did not fit any of these categories, so it has been moved.

Common types of off-topic threads include:

GNOME/KDE/XFCE help in general
Hardware problems not directly related to compositing


Thanks,
Jacob

[hatten]

Oh thanks, i was not entirely sure where to put it. I'll be sure to remember it until next time =)