kill xterm kills app!

[Salvatore Di Nardo]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:21, duncan brown wrote:
> (xclock &) &
> 
> not sure what it's called, but that works.   i used to knwo the name, but
> i've become old and stupid.
> 
> -d
> 
> Jay Daniels said:
> > If I open a terminal and run a program in the background using the "&"
> > when I close the terminal the program gets killed.
> >
> > xclock &
> > x out of terminal kills xclock!
> >
> > How do I prevent this?
> >
> >
> > jay
> >
> >
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nohup xclock &
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