Re: FVWM: Re: Shell scripts in FVWM menus

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:50:06 -0500

Timothy Groves <groves_ca_at_yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 02:55:39 -0500
> parv <parv_fm_at_fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>
> > If it runs in xterm, then you need something to keep that xterm
> > alive so that it doesn't die, as you have already found out. And,
>
> It is a GUI created with GTK+Python, and when launched manually from an XTerm
> , it completes and leaves the GUI running. The XTerm can then be manually cl
> osed. But if launched from an XTerm using -e, it closes as soon as the XTerm
> closes.

That sounds like it tries to maintain some kind of connection to
the invoking terminal.

Try using nohup.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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