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Thread: Starting programs in the background

  1. #1
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    Question Starting programs in the background

    Hi,

    I want to run some programs at startup.
    But I want them to start in a specific order and delayed in some intervals (sleep 5s etc.).

    So I created a script like this
    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    
    firefox
    
    sleep 5s
    thunderbird
    
    sleep 5s
    pidgin
    and put it into preferences/sessions/startup programs tab/add.

    But, of course, now the next program won't start until I close the previous one.

    Is there a possibility to start a program in the background, so the script won't stop?

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    Re: Starting programs in the background

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulW89 View Post
    Hi,

    I want to run some programs at startup.
    But I want them to start in a specific order and delayed in some intervals (sleep 5s etc.).

    So I created a script like this
    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    
    firefox
    
    sleep 5s
    thunderbird
    
    sleep 5s
    pidgin
    and put it into preferences/sessions/startup programs tab/add.

    But, of course, now the next program won't start until I close the previous one.

    Is there a possibility to start a program in the background, so the script won't stop?

    Code:
    #!/bin/bash
    firefox&
    
    sleep 5s
    thunderbird&
    
    sleep 5s
    pidgin&

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