Starting programs in the background

[PaulW89]

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

#!/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?

[iponeverything]

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

#!/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?




#!/bin/bash
firefox&

sleep 5s
thunderbird&

sleep 5s
pidgin&