More little tips and tricks
Updating a previous blog entry:
- To keep the terminal available even after launching an application, append the command with
&. Ex:nautilus & - To launch an application from a terminal and keep the application running even upon closing the terminal, add
nohupbefore the command. Can be used with the previous tip. Ex:nohup nautilus & -
whichreturns the pathnames of the files which would be executed in the current environment (fromman which). Meaning if you have installed a package and you do not know how to start it,whichwill return the full path and name of the executable file -
sudo ln -s /home/your_login/.themes /root/.themes sudo ln -s /home/your_login/.icons /root/.icons sudo ln -s /home/your_login/.fonts /root/.fonts
will have root applications use your user theme, icons and fonts (replace your_login with your user login)
avril 16th, 2007 at 0:24
Your first two tips are the wrong way ’round, I think.
command &
is the equivalent of Ctrl+Z then bg during a program; it runs it as a background job. If you close the terminal, the program dies too.
nohup command
prevents command from being treated as a sub-process of the shell running it. Hence you can open gnome-terminal, run `nohup gedit`, close the terminal, and gedit will still be running.
avril 16th, 2007 at 0:34
Hello Carl,
You are right :/
Sorry, I edit that right away. Thanks a lot.
avril 16th, 2007 at 1:02
No problem. The tip about root themes was certainly handy. And `which` was the one tool I probably wasn’t using enough (though you may want to mention whatis, because it’s also pretty handy.